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Edited on Tue Oct-27-09 07:21 PM by JohnWxy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091027/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul
WASHINGTON – Democratic moderates who control the balance of power on health care legislation balked Tuesday at a government-run insurance option for millions of Americans, underscoring the enormity of the challenge confronting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid one day after he unveiled the plan as a consensus product.
Republican opposition stiffened, and party leaders announced they would attempt to strangle the bill before formal debate begins.
Despite the obvious obstacles, senior Democrats cast Reid's draft legislation as a turning point in the yearlong campaign to enact President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said there is now a "sense of inevitability, the sense that, yes, we're going to pass health care reform, and it's going to lower costs, provide better health insurance coverage and cover — and reform the health insurance market (racket?__JW)."
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Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, announced that in this case, members of his party will treat it as though it were "a vote on the merits" of a bill he said would "cut Medicare, raise taxes and increase health insurance premiums."
He suggested Democrats could expect campaign commercials next year on the basis of the vote, and recalled that Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was ridiculed in his 2004 presidential campaign for having once said he voted for a bill before he voted against it.
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(Do the Republicans sound like their getting desperate???__JW)
This is going to be a real fight though. MOney versus the People. Republican Corporate Lobbyists against responsible, smart government.
Call and email your Senators. They are going to need your support in this fight.
NOTE: With the "Opt out" provision for states there is no excuse for Dems to not vote for this bill. THe real Democrats can fight for the Public Option and even if they lose (no bill at all) the voters would NOT blame them (Obama is afraid to not get something, "anything" that even LOOKS LIKE health care reform because he thinks it will look like a "failure" an his part and that voters will punish him and Dems for it.).. But there is no excuse for anybody to not vote for the PO with the "opt out" provision in there.
Anyone who votes against it now is just out to protect insurance company profits. HOw can any Democrat vote against this now? A vote against Reform now is just fighting against the Government doing the sensible, the smart and by the way, the RIGHT thing.
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