Posted on 09/03/2009 11:29:11 AM PDT by Starman417
Obama and friends are taking a play from the Hillary Clinton playbook....proposing a "trigger" Socialist takeover of health care instead of a single payer system from the start:
My colleague Dana Bash and I have learned from a source, each one of us, that this White House right now is very quietly in serious conversations with Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, a key moderate.She is basically the last Republican out of those gang of six senators who have been negotiating, really the last Republican that has an open line to this White House right now.
What we're hearing that she's talking about with White House staff is sort of a scaled-back bill that would focus on insurance reforms that both sides could agree to, but would not have a full public option, instead, would have a so-called trigger. What that means in layman's terms is basically that the insurance companies would have a couple of years to make some dramatic changes.
If they do not make those changes, then a public option would be triggered. So, it would be used down the road. They would hope that this would appease liberals by saying it's not completely off the table. And the big hope is that this could bring along another moderate Republican, like maybe Susan Collins of Maine, some conservative Democrats, like Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu in the Senate, who don't want a public option, but would sort of potentially be open to a trigger like this.
Nancy is saying no way:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she is firmly committed to passing a comprehensive healthcare reform bill with a public insurance option despite signals from top White House aides that the president may forge another path to gain bipartisan approval. “We can’t pass a bill without a public option,” Pelosi told reporters after speaking at a healthcare event hosted by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce in her home district.
Which means there is no coincidence that Obama will host the two nimrods of Congress just before his speech next week:
And I'm also told that next Tuesday afternoon, the president, the day before the speech, is going to host Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid here at the White House Tuesday afternoon to kind of run through the final details with them.
Yup...he will lay down his backdoor plan and they will go along with it. No question about it.
Yup...he will lay down his backdoor plan and they will go along with it. No question about it. But Karl at Protein Wisdom thinks there could be a silver lining in this new tactic:
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NO! NO! NO! If this report is accurate, a “trigger” is just semantics to a back-door public option!!!
“Obama and friends”
If it isn’t clear Obama is in the pocket of insurance companies by now to this man, nothing will change him. A greenspanian libertarian useful idiot mind.
“Socialism”. Whatever.
“”If this report is accurate, a “trigger” is just semantics to a back-door public option!!!””
Oh Noz! Is that worse than the fascist option?
But since it's a "compromise", the entire move will be designed to garner new public support and back down the attacks... just long enough to gain passage.
so, if the insurance companies don’t have a plan out there in two years for every American at every age for a $50/month premium that covers aromatherapy and hangnail removal, the Public Option will be “triggered” quickly leading to single payer
Castro used to say, “Three steps forward; one step back”. He seized power and tightened the controls gradually with some concessions which were later withdrawn.
Not just the Hillary playbook. Remember, Kennedy/McCain/Bush had a "trigger" for amnesty in 2007.
“Not just the Hillary playbook. Remember, Kennedy/McCain/Bush had a “trigger” for amnesty in 2007. “
You’re doggone right they did!
How ludicrous is this? The Dems have overwhelming control of Congress. They can pass this without a single Rep vote. Why the "negotiations" with Snowe? Note: That is a rhetorical question. The answer is obvious.
There is no need for a compromise. The Dems control the House 255-178 with two vacancies and the Senate 57-40-2 (ind but caucus with Dems) with one vacant.
Why would healthy, young people want to buy health insurance when there is a “previously existing conditions” clause? They will just wait till they get sick. That, of course, is why they have to be forced to get the insurance.
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