Posted on 09/04/2009 6:07:10 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: No public option, no bill By: Alex Isenstadt September 3, 2009 06:53 PM EST
As the White House signals that it is willing to move forward on a health reform plan without a public option, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) sent a strong message Thursday evening: not so fast.
In her strongest statement yet, Pelosi said that any bill "without a strong public option will not pass the House":
“Any real change requires the inclusion of a strong public option to promote competition and bring down costs,” Pelosi said. “If a vigorous public option is not included, it would be a major victory for the health insurance industry.”
Pelosi’s remarks come less than one week before President Barack Obama delivers an address to a joint session of Congress as part of a re-launched campaign effort to sell his health care reform bill to both lawmakers and the public. White House aides have said the president will use the speech to offer more detail than he has so far about what sort of bill he'd like to reach his desk.
“President Obama has said that a public option will keep the insurance companies honest. If someone has a better idea for promoting competition and reducing health care costs, they should put it on the table,” Pelosi said. “But for the past month, opponents of health insurance reform have demonstrated that they are afraid of the facts. They have only offered distortions, distractions and misrepresentations to try to kill this historic legislation.”
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I’m OK with it.
Deal!
Yeah Nancy, kill it! Kill it dead!
darn.... I guess we don’t get a health care bill...
....just darn...
Nazi Pelosi has spoken.
Hope her fire insurance is paid up, 0bama might even now be reading up on that unfortunate night at the Reichstag in 1933.
Somehow I missed this “public option” thingy...don’t know how that slipped me by—but could someone explain exactly what that means to this little ole lady?
Wrong... It will be a major victory for the American taxpayers. This Mexican Standoff will end just the way we want.... Gov’t staying the h*&^ OUT of our Doctor's office!!!
Good Nancy! Stick to your leftist guns! The whole mess will go down in flames!
public “option” is simply “single payer”, with the gov’t as that “single.
Without single payer, the left doesn’t gain the control that is the whole point of this agenda/bill.
With single payer, the gov’t gets to decide what treatment you get or don’t get based on their own unappealable criteria. This would easily evolve into - obey the gov’t (leftists’) dictates, or be denied healthcare.
It means socialized medicine is your option.
Here is the CUE that was reported that 0bama was waiting for.
Do they not relaize that they look like a bunch of idiots daily with flip flops of them all saying different things?
0bama cannot and will not be the leader and spell the bill out line by line because he can’t because they have so much to hide and pay rent a mobs for; with their astro-turfing.
You go girl!
The Feds ...deciding a certain individual or individuals are a liability...is a very dangerous place to go....it is exactly where Germans chose to go in 1933....
Consider that picture STOLEN!
Guess it's just the way my weird mind works....
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