openleft.com - 6/12/2009
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To read a post about how to give Dems a little fear o' God, and then read posts about how we need "a public option."
"Public option" is the gateway drug to a weasel deal. The answer is called "single payer," and there's a house resolution (HR 676) that lays out a direct path to making it so.
briefingroom.thehill.com - 6/14/2009
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briefingroom.thehill.com —
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said this weekend that
he opposes a public option plan for consumers in
a healthcare reform plan to emerge from the Senate. "I don't favor a public option," Lieberman told Bloomberg News in an interview broadcast this ...
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Lieberman won't back public option on healthcare
rasmussenreports.com - 6/15/2009
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rasmussenreports.com —
Forty-one percent (41%) of American adults believe it
would be a good idea to set up a
government health insurance company to compete with private health insurance companies. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that an identical ...
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41% Favor Public Sector Health Care Option, 41% Disagree
ourfuture.org - 6/16/2009
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ourfuture.org —
Eighty-three percent of Americans favor and only 14
percent oppose “creating a new public health insurance plan
that anyone can purchase” according to EBRI, a conservative business research organization. This flatly contradicts conservatives’ loudest ...
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New Poll Shows Tremendous Support for Public Health Care ...
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"Strong public option" = "peace in our time"
Corrente —
Once you accept the "public option" frame, it's "goodnight, nurse!" for real health-insurance reform.
It's only happening about everywhere in the liberal blogosophere.
OTOH, maybe a compromise with the Blue Dogs, Republicans, and death-by-spreadsheet crowd will work out just fine. It would be irresponsible not to equivocate.
More and more
The Sideshow —
... who have all kinds of different plans and different paperwork and - are you getting this? And if you can opt out of paying for the public plan (and throw your money down the drain instead on a commercial insurer), you limit the degree of shared risk, and it's that "shared" part that really insurance work. So it infuriates me that the conservative Democrats have pushed me into a position where I'm supposed to be defending the inclusion of this expensive Trojan horse when we should be climbing down their throats for not offering us ...
Why I Heart Avedon
Suburban Guerrilla —
... all kinds of different plans and different paperwork and - are you getting this? And if you can opt out of paying for the public plan (and throw your money down the drain instead on a commercial insurer), you limit the degree of shared risk, and it’s that “shared” part that really insurance work. So it infuriates me that the conservative Democrats have pushed me into a position where I’m supposed to be defending the inclusion of this expensive Trojan horse when we should be climbing down their throats for not offering us ...
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Public Support for the Public Option
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motherjones.com 8/17/2009 — Joe Klein on the public option: I never had much interest in a public option. I think the perils of government-delivered (as opposed to funded) services are obvious and immense....On the other hand, I am very much in favor of a single-payer system in ...
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