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To: Maelstorm

A weak public option will be a failure.

A public option that doesn’t have Medicare price controls will not have a palatable price tag, and if it can’t coerce doctors to participate, then no one will, and the provider network within the public option with be dogsh!t and will collapse.

Only a strong public option, fully funded and backed by the US treasury (not premiums), and one that can control prices and coerce doctor participation has a chance of survival. I’m pretty sure all those things are deal breakers for everyone outside the progressive caucus.


10 posted on 07/29/2009 6:57:17 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: St. Louis Conservative

We will see. I think a lot of the Democrat angst is make believe. I show of sorts.


12 posted on 07/29/2009 6:58:37 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Why are those who claim to have open minds so afraid of open debate?)
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