Posted on 08/16/2009 9:16:51 AM PDT by RobinMasters
WASHINGTON Apparently ready to abandon the idea, President Barack Obama's health secretary said Sunday a government alternative to private health insurance is "not the essential element" of the administration's health care overhaul.
The White House indicated it could jettison the contentious public option and settle on insurance cooperatives as an acceptable alternative, a move embraced by some Republicans lawmakers who have strongly opposed the administration's approach so far.
Officials from both political parties reached across the aisle in an effort to find compromises on proposals they left behind when they returned to their districts for an August recess. Obama has been pressing for the government to run a health insurance organization to help cover the nation's almost 50 million uninsured.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the White House would be open to co-ops instead of a government-run public option, a sign Democrats want a compromise so they can declare a victory on the must-win showdown.
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LOL - I quite enjoyed reading all those despairing comments. So they are not going to get their socialist paradise from Obambi after all.
So sad.
Tactic #12
"The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative."
I am very thankful for Glenn Beck, Rush, Hannity, Levin and the countless others ....God bless them!
Agreed, Obama was shooting for full blown fascism, now they'll have to back up to communism as a compromise. We still lose.
They get it!
FAKE OUT! FOLLOW the MONEY!
“Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, declined to criticize Palin’s comments and said Obama wants to create a government-run panel to advise what types of care would be available to citizens.
“In all honesty, I don’t want a bunch of nameless, faceless bureaucrats setting health care for my aged citizens in Utah,” Hatch said. “
So what about the death panel that is already in existence that includes Dr. Zeke?
100% gotta show me what you mean and what you’re going to try and foist on me.
I think you nailed it on the head.
let me know when Obama goes after malpractice reform.
Now is the time to press even harder against the National Socialist. We must double our efforts to kill this bill and Cap and Trade as well. Everyone must:
Continue to write and call their reps
Write REAL letters to fill their offices to the rafters
Continue to attend public events and voice our opinions
The tide may very well be turning OR it is just a feint by the National Socialist to lull our forces into a complacency or even a trap. As all good leftist teach, if you can’t beat them - make them think you’re giving up.
Yes Beck ,Savage and Rush are heroes but those who sacrificed time and effort to go to the Town Halls are to be thanked. We now know that we can go raise hell and get anything we want across. Amnesty is coming again and I can’t wait to see the outrage on that. We need a giant celebration of victory . Maybe the big 9/12 rally. We need a million or so happy people. Rachel Maddow must be devastated and that ohberman guy that no one watches. And there is no global warming tax coming either. IS THIS NOT A GREAT DAY IN AMERICA????
It's scary taking a stand.
I'm due at one this Tuesday and I hear it will be packed out!
I don’t believe it for a minute. They’ll say whatever they have to in order to tone down the rhetoric. We can’t back off. We also need to bring to the forefront the fact that Hussein and his minions will have complete access to all Americans’ bank accounts and other financial accounts/info.
To quote 0bama, “If you put lipstick on a pig it’s still a pig.” You can call socialized medicine anything you want, it’s still socialized medicine.
They need to drop the whole d*mn thing! No more camel’s nose under the tent, incremental crap!
Government is WAY too incompentent to control something as important as healthcare.
I just put on my mental Haz-Mat suit and flushed myself over to the see what the DUmmies think of this.
Me thinks they are a little disappointed in the Anointed One right now... :)
Yup. If Soros and his puppets in the White House really cared about "insuring the uninsured", they'd already be pouring billions of $$$ into setting up health-care Co-ops in low-income areas, and raising more billions in charitable contributions.
Instead, they're pouring billions into propaganda organizations like ACORN, Media Matters and Move.on. It's all about statism and political power.
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