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Did a grass-roots group get Sen. Ben Nelson to rethink the public-plan option?

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  • Posted By: TZ192583 @ 06/29/2009 4:27:17 AM

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  • Posted By: Apolitical @ 06/24/2009 2:48:51 PM

    The health-care reform with 72% support from American public is indeed ripe for grass roots initiative to bludgeon the representatives and senators for its backing and eventual approval into law. GOP is planning on another political suicide by opposing it in mindless lemming fashion. We'll let them. The Dems have the vote to pass it. We should just exert more pressure on the other recalcitrant Democrats.

  • Posted By: unionave @ 06/19/2009 4:59:11 AM

    Saving $94 BILLION in governent spending would do a lot for our economy but at every turn it means cuttin out some useless industry . The insurance industry in a large casino business that in some cases the government forces us to put up our money whether you want to or not (automobile) . It is a bet you never win because casinos do not lose money . What would happen if we all decided not to bet ? Just put the monthly insurance payments in a FDIC bank account and only think about in as insurance money and not a nest egg . I got a letter from the really big phone company saying that my rates were going up and how happy I was going to be with this rate increase . Big business has played the Rope-A-Dope trick on us for years and we have become brain washed while our government makes laws that force us to be in the game . When I saw the Cspan cameras showing insurance lobbyist on the floor of congress handing out checks I knew we were dead meat .

  • Posted By: Frank Kirkwood @ 06/18/2009 3:31:40 PM

    Just like the private bankers in the student loan business, the health insurance companies are the middlemen of the health care industry. They cure no one, they prevent no illness. Their most important function, as viewed from Washington, is that the fund the re-election campaigns of their protectors in Congress.

  • Posted By: Kerriwyn @ 06/18/2009 2:45:54 AM

    In America, no matter your race, religion, gender or financial bracket, you should be able to get full quality health-care for free, from hearing to dental and everything inbetween.
    It is a disgrave that the government says you must be documented as making at least 10,000 a year and under 19,000 a year (in NY for example) to receive any kind of help. WTH is that? Both of those numbers are so far beyond below-subsidary that it is ridiculous to draw a distinction between the two. Yet, in this country, if you make NOTHING, you are considered INELLIGIBLE to receive ANY kind of benefits, health or other wise. Obama is a sham and a fraud. He plans on helping NO ONE but the people who currently run the health-care industry which leaves so many in the cold. HRC should be in charge of this sector and a bi-partisan comitee should be forumalted to evaluate the results.

  • Posted By: norden8541 @ 06/17/2009 9:33:02 PM

    The words "Fair" & "Durbin" do not compute!!!

  • Posted By: gvillagran3 @ 06/17/2009 5:44:21 PM

    Republicans almost unanimously say a government plan would lead to a Washington take over, and the demise of a multi-billion Dollar industry, so the plan is a non-starter according to the vote counters in the Senate.

    Now, I don't know about you but I smell a rat..... Or more to the point, I smell a bunch big Pharma, and Big Insurance Lobbyst in these "concern" that our beloved representatives have found for our tax payers Dollars. Is funny how this works. In the blink of an eye our " fiscaly responsible Senators" trow a trillion of tax payers Dollars to "rescue the banking system" no questions asked, other than the queation the politicians asked the banking lobby... "How much you guys need?"

    But when it comes to saving taxpayers money by stoping colossal waste and fraud in the PRIVATE health care system we currently have, all of the sudden our representatives turn into fierce fiscal fighters that will not under any sircunstance allow our "ineficient" government; NOTE is the same government that bailed out our very "efficient " financial PRIVATE sector and demand every Dollar to be counted, explained, and taken for Xrays for verification.

    People we are barking at the wrong three with our Vote = Democracy thing........ If we want real results for WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE , don't waste your time electing a politician from your party. Start a money drive on the internet, rise a few billion Dollars, hire the best lobbyst in D.C. and show the big fat cats who's in charge.

    Because the way I see it, the onlly use that our politicians have for WE THE PEOPLE these days, is for us to pay the bills left behind by the buch fat cat friends they have .

  • Posted By: RO in Reno @ 06/17/2009 4:19:02 PM

    Jonathan Alter said ""The future of not just health care but all political reform???indeed, of all honest politics???depends on Web activists who can crack that code.""
    Amen to that and the fact is obviously there are still a lot of Bushies and people like Nelson who would put the profits of the insurance companies ahead of the needs of 52 million Americans to whom health care is essentially non existant..
    People like Nelson have to go, he may represent only one state but what he does effects the entire nation.

  • Posted By: Tea6 @ 06/17/2009 3:31:00 PM

    Conservative Democrats rely on the minority vote in their state to survive. Without it they are dead. That is how you can pressure them.

  • Posted By: Bobsr1 @ 06/16/2009 7:29:01 PM

    Medicare works better than any system I have been on my entire life and I'm nearly 70 years old. The entire country should be placed on Medicare as it was during the Johnson administration, month-by -month alphabetically until the entire country is enrolled. We then would give private enterprises a chance to compete with the government -- as if they would be capable of competing with a nonprofit system!

    One of the things that really aggravated me over the years was the constant changing of the health plans and providers by my company. I can imagine why overhead costs are so high for hospitals when handling bills. If they had to only deal with one single payer things would start getting way cheaper right away.

    • Posted By: bjsassy @ 06/17/2009 2:00:02 PM

      Medicare is projected to go broke by 2019. It is simply unsustainable under the current financial program.

  • Posted By: isis5632 @ 06/17/2009 12:50:20 PM

    I voted for Barack Obama, but knew we were in trouble when he hired all the old Clinton heads. He seems more concerned with passing some great new bill for his legacy than actually supported a program that works. We have to reduce costs. We already know what works. Mayo clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Duke medical home project...we already know how to provide effective low cost medical care, why not just expand on those models instead of creating some big grand expensive scheme. Its kind of like his financial overhaul..hmm, why dont we focus on enforcing the rules we have now instead of creating new unfunded mandates like we always do. It would be comical if it were not so sad.

  • Posted By: obiwan @ 06/17/2009 9:41:56 AM

    Hey Jonathan Alter the correct website is

    CHANGEYOURCONGRESS.ORG

    Have you ever heard of proofing your work Einstein?

  • Posted By: obiwan @ 06/17/2009 9:39:18 AM

    The public option would serve the people who the insurance industry does not serve currently. Why is there such opposition to helping the the millions un-served and under-served? First they say the public plan would be bad and not work well. Then they say it will drive private companies out business. Which is it? Those two arguments cancel each other and MAKE NO SENSE. Why do we want to keep an over priced under performing system in place. Private insurance has failed and should go away if it can't serve everyone fairly. My policy is horribly over priced. I am being gouged and the only alternative is NO insurance. Not acceptable. This system needs to be fixed. If auto insurance excluded 1/6 of drivers the revolution would start yesterday.

  • Posted By: rho1953 @ 06/16/2009 6:54:29 PM

    Look at how the government has handled every other welfare program. Who believes that they can run health care? it's absurd and insane. Leave my health care alone, Oobonga.

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