Burris hints his healthcare vote is not assured

Source: LA Times

Sen. Mary Landrieu got something. Sen. Joe Lieberman got something. And now, Sen. Roland Burris of Illinois is hinting that he, too, wants something.

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Lieberman understood the power he had and made it known that he could not back a bill unless it dropped any expansion of Medicare to those younger than 65. Leaders backed away from their compromise and Lieberman is inching closer to full endorsement of the bill.

Landrieu understood as well. She won a key language concession that brought hundreds of millions of needed Medicaid dollars to her state of Louisiana. In exchange she voted with fellow Democrats to break a Republican filibuster and allow the healthcare bill onto the floor for full debate.

Now it may be the turn of Burris, a lame duck, who was appointed to his seat by disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Burris, a supporter of a strong public option, stated that he was concerned the pending bill did not “do enough to preserve the goals of the public option provision -- specifically cost containment, creation of meaningful competition, and holding insurance companies accountable.”

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dcnow/2009/12/burris-hints-his-healthcare-vote-is-not-assured.html

of progressive causes!

could hold out for a public option.

And if it were to work, he could have so much to gain.

under President Liarman's feet. :rofl:

Obama is gonna think twice about all the nice-nice he threw Lieberman's way - he just ate it up and asked for seconds.

like Liebermann and Baucus. Who cares who appointed him if he stands for something. The others do not.

the Anti-Lieberman.

Here it is. Hit the fax please.

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57848, High Priority -- Sanders Amendment to Be Heard—SEND FREE FAX NOW…..
Posted by maryinthemorn on Tue Dec-15-09 05:05 AM



Lets go for broke and flood their offices.



By Donna Smith, American Sicko

This is it, Medicare for All, single-payer advocates. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced tonight that tomorrow the Senate will hear several more amendments to the health reform bill - and one of those amendments is Sen. Bernie Sanders' single-payer amendment No. 2837. The amendment also has two other original co-sponsors, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Sen. Roland Burris of Illinois.

We need you to fax or call the phone numbers below now. Click here to fax for free.

http://www.1payer.net/faxapp/senders/add/cid:47


We never knew if we'd get to this point. And it is your work and your passion that got the single-payer effort this far. Let's send this message as loudly and clearly as we can.
So, in a historic turn of events, single-payer healthcare will finally be heard by this Congress. Single-payer is a wonderful idea from the left - public financing - combined with a terrific idea from the right - private delivery, and put together in one common sense plan for all. One single standard of high quality healthcare - everybody in, nobody out.
Our effort is needed one more time - we need to let Senator Reid know we are pleased the Senate will hear the amendment, but we must also ask our Senators to vote in favor of it. The numbers for phoning are:

Make the calls to Sen. Harry Reid and your U.S. Senators TONIGHT:
Washington, D.C., office: (202) 224-3542
Las Vegas, NV, office: (702) 388-5020
U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
Peace - onward. We shall overcome. Healthcare is a basic human right.

We need a massive outpouring of faxes and phone calls to the office of Harry Reid, who is the key to getting a vote on Sen. Sanders' amendment. Click here to send your fax now to your Senators and to Sen. Reid urging a vote on SA 2837, the Sanders single payer amendment.

Click here to send your fax now to your Senators and Senator Reid

http://www.1payer.net/faxapp/senders/add/cid:47

Then call the offices of your Senators (numbers here).

Then call the office of Sen. Reid (202) 224-3542 to ask him to allow floor debate and a vote on SA 2837.
Click here to send your fax now to Senator Reid

....as the Good Doctor points out, the system is so fucked up that we will have to be back here soon trying to fix healthcare whether we want to or not....

....drive a stake through the heart of this Senate healthcare bill beast; let's start over and do it right....Roland, you know I've always liked you and Rod, we're counting on ya....