Health Deals Anger Former Obama Staffers, Supporters

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Health Deals Anger Former Obama Staffers, Supporters

Posted by Stephanie Condon

President Obama has said in recent weeks that he still supports a government-sponsored health insurance plan, or "public option," but he has stopped short of calling it a necessary element of health care reform. For tens of thousands of his supporters, that is not good enough.

More than 70,000 former Obama campaign staffers, volunteers and donors have signed a petition, spearheaded by the liberal group the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, saying as much.

"We worked so hard for real change," the petition reads. "President Obama, please demand a strong public health insurance option in your speech to Congress. Letting the insurance companies win would not be change we can believe in."

The PCCC is organizing the petitioners to gather in front of the White House today just after Noon, to protest the potential abandonment of the public option, a proposal the president once said "must" be included in a reform package, as part of a health insurance exchange, or "marketplace" from which consumers can choose from various insurance plans.

Of the more than 70,000 who have signed the petition, more than 400 are former Obama staffers, about 25,000 were volunteers for Mr. Obama and 40,000 donated money to his presidential campaign.

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Sniff...........

[albie]

faggity ass whiners...spiral eyed dopes repeating that “change we can believe in” BS. Unbelievable.

[True Grit]

Major League “A’s, all of them”.

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spearheaded by the liberal group the Progressive Change Campaign Committee,

PCCC is the code name. Should be "Marxist/ACORN Hacks Hired By Soros To Destroy America Committee."

In fact they get their orders from the same place Obama does. Divide and conquer is the game here folks. Nothing new.

[sickoflibs]

YESS! Dont give in progressives, you worked too hard for Obama, he owes you free healthcare (those taxpayers !!!)

How about Obama saying Jesus would raise taxes?

[rcrngroup]

I love to watch unhinged liberal retards go beserk as 0bozo backs off the socialist commie public option. However 0boze & the demoRATs are evil to the core, and that is why this debacle needs to be defeated 100% because any sliver of a crack will allow demoRATs to stack all sorts of socialist amendments onto it down the road.

Kill the healthcare debacle bill!!!

[TonyInOhio]

"We worked so hard for real change," the petition reads.

Dear PCCC,

It's not about you. It's about ME.

Yours,

Dear Leader

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What kind of “health care’ do these Kool Aid drinkers think they will be under????

[radioone]

The folk that want government health care evidently Enjoy going to the DMV.

[ishabibble]

These are the people we are going to have to fight if we are to kill this Obamacare. 70,000 lefties, greenies, and assorted “activists”. Oh my!