Posted on 03/11/2010 10:16:39 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Nancy Pelosi: Health care was 'hijacked'
By: Andy Barr March 11, 2010 12:02 PM EST
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi concedes that Democrats allowed the health care reform debate to get “hijacked” by insurance companies and other interests set on killing the bill.
Pelosi, in the second part of an interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose that aired Wednesday, said that early Democratic messaging attempts were plagued by the fact that the House and Senate had yet to come to any agreement about what would be in the bill.
“When you don't (have) a bill yet, anyone can characterize it any way you want,” the California Democrat said. “I think that while there's some well-intentioned people who have concerns about budget and this and that, a lot of that sentiment was hijacked by a concerted effort on the part of the insurance companies and their supporters to make sure we don't a bill.”
“They could characterize it any way they wanted,” she added. “They could focus the debate.”
Pelosi pointed specifically to the focus on a public option as a tactic health care reform opponents used to damage the bill.
“If you are an insurance company, you want to take down public option, right? You want to get rid of that. But as you do it, you want to confuse the issue on health care reform,” Pelosi explained. “So as long as people are talking about this — the public option — they're not talking about what is in the bill for the American people.”
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Is there anyone else they can blame?
No bill? Senate bill? Is this the Twilight Zone?
She KNOWS she doesn’t and will not get the votes to pass this thing!
We’re not dumb you stupid plastic bitch.
How ridiculous... IT WAS THE MAJOR INSURANCE COMPANIES THAT LARGELY WROTE THE BILL (guaranteeing millions of new customers).
The populist demagoguery against the socialists favorite whipping boy “evillll corporations,” is just ridiculous...especially when these same companies are co-conspirators.
She’s a lot of noise pollution.
It was actually “hi-jacked” by Congress and the American people are simply working to regain control.
Oh, shut your piehole, you walking facelift.
Future dictionaries will read something like this:
Assenine - see Pelosi
B*tch - see Pelosi
Bimbo - see Pelosi
Cretin - see Pelosi
Dumbo - see Pelosi
Ignoramus - see Pelosi
Loutish - see Pelosi
Pelosi, see assenine, b*tch, bimbo, cretin, dumbo, ignoramus, loutish, stupid, vapid
Stupid - see Pelosi
Vapid - see Pelosi
“...especially when these same companies are co-conspirators.”
Which is why they remain mute if the face of attacks. Seems they think this is a win-win senario playing out. I think they’re very wrong about that.
Yes, Nazi P, the vast majority of us citizens that don’t want government to federalize 1/6 th of the economy and determine what kind of care we can get, are in cahoots with big insurance.
It really has to be hard to be a liberal, trying to live all those lies.
Have you attended a Insurance Company health care rally?
Seems like Nanny’s problem description needs refinement.
This COUNTRY was hijacked by a bunch of America-hating self-loathing Communists.
hmmm -that could have all be alleviated had she posted it on the net as promised
Mr. Gawain, you’re going to make yourself sick holding things in like that!
;-D
No. The U.S.A. was hijacked.
“Health Care hijacked!”
That’s the most revealing thing I’ve heard from Pelosi. It confirms that she can’t get the votes. You wouldn’t say that if you were close.
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