[ConjunctionJunction]

For those who might not know, Jacob Hacker is the liberal professor who is known as the "father of the public option":

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/52716

[Tarpon]

Read the history of the NAZIs “ENABLING ACT” of 1933.

[Reddy]

Where is the mega-barf alert?

[jveritas]

This is the communist scum who has been pushing for single payer i.e. the so called public option. He, Obama and the other socialists/communists were utterly defeated by a single Senator called Lieberman who forced them to remove the public option and the medicare buy in.

As in a typcial fashion with communists, they never admit defeat, but rather the put a happy face on a political disaster. That is why this communist scum is trying to find a way to say that the bill is good for him and his communist ilks. It is not. This bill is the worst ever political disaster for the democrats.

[Brad from Tennessee]

There are more private firearms in the U.S. than citizens. One sector that has thrived in the recession is the manufacture and sales of guns and ammo. The founders anticipated tyranny and provided a counterbalance.

[goldstategop]

What they really want is a single payer system. They can't have it all so they'll take what they can get now and complete the government takeover later.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[lastchance]

I must have missed the Barf Alert and the “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire” warning.

[CodeToad]

Thisi s nothing but an attempt by the Communists to take over our government. They have added illegal “Senate Rules” such no further bill can be introduced to overturn this medical industry takeover. That’s right. No Senator may introduce any bill that voerturns this bill.

This is a move by a dictatorship and an overthrow of the US government!

[windsorknot]

Jacob Hacker: the name says it all.

[lentulusgracchus]

The manager’s amendment sets a floor on the number of premium dollars insurers must spend on care and requires insurers to issue rebates to policyholders if they do not live up to this standard — a strong new regulatory check on insurer behavior.

Hmmm, wonder if Harry is taking his revenge on the companies by driving them out of the medical insurance business?

Of course, he could be trying to corner the public: if the private companies walk away, people will be prodded to clamor for "single payer".

Which is a game the Rats have been playing since Hillarycare failed -- by letting the insurance industry into ownership of medical practices and hospitals, for instance, which was previously prohibited by law. Screw everything up, and create a "constituency" for single-payer Sovietcare.