It never gets old with this guy:
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) again criticized the push to include a public option, saying that it would lead to a single-payer healthcare system.
“This bill has so much good in it, it does so much good,” Lieberman said. “Why are you insisting on getting a foot in the door on single payer?”
Hanging around with Republicans on the campaign trail last year seems to have agreed with him.
Steve Benen is counting this fool’s excuses. I believe that’s excuse number 8.
Separately, perhaps Lieberman should blame his fellow Senators and insurance company CEOs. The Senators for designing the PO to be limited to people without insurance and the CEOs for forcing people off their coverage rolls with at-will premium rate increases.
As this continues, the PO will become the de facto coverage option for millions of people as they drop private insurance because of the cost and thus become eligible for PO coverage.
At least that’s how I read it so far.
Do you think there will be a public option at the end of this process?
Personally, I think so since the House version is already past the finish line.
Booman has stated on several occasions that the conference report is where Obama will put the public option in via the House version and go from there. I hope/think that’s what’s going to happen
But if I were to embrace my inner Jane Hamsher, I would say no because the Administration doesn’t have a track record of trust in doing the “right” thing for the people and will probably drop it in favor of whatever piece of garbage the Senate can cobble together, then twist House arms to pass it.
Separately, I’m a wee bit disappointed in the Teamsters, a constituency I belong to by family, releasing a statement some time back that said a PO wasn’t necessary for HCR. I think the PO is necessary.
I think Reid killed the PO when he introduced it in the base bill. As I predicted, this gave every jackass moderate the right to pick it to pieces in return for their support. Once they cobble together 60 votes for some piece of shit, there is no way they’ll risk it in the Conference.
But everyone was so convinced that the way to succeed was to put the PO in the base bill.
a fundraising org called today to ask me for $ for some progressive candidates org. told the caller I’ll only contribute to dfa, ofa, and Actblue until they pass public option. the person started screaming at me. of course that’s the way to get me to contribute. had read over at the orange place of this happening to someone else. anyway I screamed back names of senators who show be doing something about it. maybe they can’t do anything about Nelson and Lieberman, I don’t know
Your position a very short time ago was that Harry Reid doesn’t do anything he’s not told to do. When does Barack Obama have to take some blame for the failure his administration is becoming?
You might remember that the administration wasn’t too keen on Reid’s plan even though they relented and signed off on it.
Why doesn’t he ask Aetna why it will be dropping 600,000 customers?
And cutting the coverage of their medicare supplement customers?
why won’t that awful old man just die already? A stroke, cancer, a massive thrombosis. Anything, so long as i don’t have to hear his droning mushy Droopy Dawg voice anymore.
Yikes Brendan. Out of line. I share your frustration but do not desire his death. His retirement would be just fine.
you speak for you, and I’ll speak for me.
thanks!
We almost have single-payer now. It’s called Blue Cross/Blue Shield.