Warner: I'll Vote For Public Option

Source: Blue Virginia



TPM (http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/warner-ill-vote-for-public-option-if-health-care-reform-legislation-contains-costs.php) and OpenLeft (http://openleft.com/diary/14825/senate-whip-count-update) have both confirmed this.



Read more: http://www.bluevirginia.us/2009/08/mark-warner-will-not-vote-against.html

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Wyden's office says he is open to a public option. But only if it has "price controls" and is open to everyone to join. So.. He will vote for it as long as its a strong public option. But its such a clunky way of saying that, I wish he would have gotten out in front and made a simple commitment.

he's my Senator, and our neighbor, and I've been pestering him with emails.

If I wanted a Republican Senator, I told him, I'd have voted for one.

I still want single payer, but this is good. I'd like Mark Warner to get the hell away from the mendacious and evil Evan Bayh...............

How nice of him to actually do what his constituents elected him to do, albeit in a half-hearted and grudging way. I hate that we are stuck with his weaselly @ss for 5+ more years. :mad:

he did a great job as governor. I have no idea what's happened to him in the Senate, especially with the incomparable Jim Webb as his fellow Senator from the Commonwealth.

He just better wise up..............................

I never would have expected it would be the ex-Reagan official who would be the better Democratic senator. Webb has really impressed me. Warner better step it up.

(I actually once told a very helpful and friendly Webb staffer that she needed to go down the hall and give Warner a dope slap. She laughed like it wasn't the first time she'd heard that one!)

Well, he witnessed the putrid rot from the inside!

...but Virginia ain't California or Massachusetts.

It's a freakin' southern state!

I was definitely disappointed when I wrote to him and got the canned "bi-partisan" response and was hoping for a version of single payer. I'm also not happy that he is a part of Bayh's "blue dog" group eiither. However, this is the best that we could hope to get from him for now.

Or snowball, either works for me! :P

KnR

the public option be the Ted Kennedy Medicare for All. That's the bailout we the people need in these uncertain times, after watching billions being tossed at bailing out the financial sector and billions more tossed at wars of choice and extending the war on Afghanistan when other approaches would be more effective.

We the people need a significant bailout in these devastating times. Ted Kennedy's Medicare for All as our public option would fit the bill. And would only need 51 votes in reconciliation. Although it would help the Democratic Party's reputation if they would all band together to support the moral imperative of giving us health security in these times of great economic upheaval.

And the private insurance exchange is a bailout for the private sector. Giving them a strong regulatory framework so that they can explain to their shareholders just why their profits will no longer be soaring. It will give them yet another chance to prove to us that they can do things more effectively than the public sector, even though they have failed miserably to prove that to us since they last stomped out Democrats' attempts to introduce national health insurance over ten years ago.

I also let her know I hoped the regulatory framework for the private option would eliminate the age discrimination they practice. Age is a pre-existing condition. I try to stay healthy but can't rewind my official date of birth.

and all I'd get back was talk of co-ops and "triggers".
I was rather blunt with my last message:
"strong public option or you loose my support and my vote"

I'm glad to see he is seeing the light.

....supporting HealthCare Reform. Rumor floating around is Orin Hatch-Back (his friend) may vote for it in his honor. It will also have his name attached to it--which is the honorable thing to do.
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their first responsibility always is to those they represent.

But any Yea vote is welcome.

Now we have to rinse and repeat in other Blue Dog states.

Hopefully a indicator of more to come.

You DO make a difference!

...a Democrat??

See here for a more detailed list: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6396126

are actually starting to read the writing on the wall. Let's hope that a few more make this move.

The Blue Dogs have being a great deal of criticism which they more than deserve. Perhaps our calls and letters are making a difference.

I guess they feel secure in knowing that they can go home to their districts with a mound of insurance company money in their pockets and still get voted back in.

All we need is 50+ Biden.

Maybe the letters actually did something.

House.

They are both indicating they will consider Ted's request for an interim appointment to fill his seat, BUT, they are also talking about holding hearings and maybe not being able to get it done before January (when current law requires them to hold the special election anyway--i.e., eff Ted Kennedy, no interim appointment).

Let them know the whole world is watching and slow walking it will not go unnoticed.



Contact info:

Murray http://www.mass.gov/legis/member/t_m0.htm


De Leo http://www.mass.gov/legis/member/rad1.htm