The Centrist Public Option - Democratic Underground

elleng

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Thu Oct-01-09 01:35 AM
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The Centrist Public Option

Unfortunately, the debate over the public option has rarely concentrated on the substance of the idea. Instead, it has been almost entirely ideological.

Because opponents know from polling that the public wants the chance to choose a government plan, they move the discourse to abstract and often demagogic ground. The most revealing "argument" during the Senate Finance Committee's public-option debate on Tuesday came from Sen. Chuck Grassley.

"The government is not a fair competitor," Grassley said. "It's a predator."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/30/AR2009093003567.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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laughingliberal

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Thu Oct-01-09 01:42 AM
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1. Yeah, cause we want to keep those non-predatory private health insurance companies in charge

Much to their chagrin, I think, the public is starting to see through this crap. I believe Republicans and DINOs are going to pay a heavy price for this giveaway to the private insurance companies.

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Fridays Child

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Thu Oct-01-09 01:49 AM
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2. Not as high a price as the 44,000+ Americans who die, each year, for want of health insurance.

Can we, somehow, make them feel that pain? Can they be visited by the ghosts of coverage past, present, and future?

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Thu Oct-01-09 02:19 AM
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3. He is referencing the movie Predator and spines as trophies.

Many that are in that bubble think it is all a game. The different choices of if reform is done, and how, is about many people suffering, and to some extent those that profit off of that suffering, not some personal interpretation of a movie. But everyone gets to make their choice, then they get to live with those choices.

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