Pelosi: “I don't even want to talk about a trigger...a trigger is an excuse for not doing anything."

Pelosi: No Triggers
by mcjoan
Thu Sep 24, 2009 at 04:52:04 PM PDT

After the brouhaha over the White House's maybe-maybe not effort to float Snowe's trigger as the compromise (started with Mike Lux, confirmed loosely by Greg Sargent and by Brian Beutler, but later denied by Sam Stein and walked back by Lux himself--let's just say that situation is fluid), the issue is moot as far as the Speaker of the House is concerned:

Pelosi (D-Calif.) rejected the idea of a “trigger” for a public option. That means that the government-run healthcare plan would be a fallback option, enacted only if other reforms didn’t make healthcare more accessible....

“I don't even want to talk about a trigger,” Pelosi said at her weekly press conference. She said the “attitude” of her fellow Democrats is that “a trigger is an excuse for not doing anything.”

Something else for the slowest moving legislative body in the history of critical legislation, otherwise known as Max Baucus's Finance Commitee, to keep in mind.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/24/785982/-Pelosi:-No-Triggers

Woooooooot!!!!!! :applause:

If they could, we wouldn't need health reform. They pulled their own trigger showing their ineptitude years ago.

Be results driven and think in terms of outcomes and how to implement them for: rewards like covering nutritional services that show a beneficial effect upon care; or punishers such as publicly subsidized community HC competition if the availability of proven best practices are too scarce to meet the needs of care communities.

can't say the same for Harry Reid.

Rock on Nancy, Stay Strong!!:yourock:

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Are the Dems FINALLY (re-)discovering their "spines"? We can only hope.

The intervening 16 years since the defeat of Bill & Hillary's health care plan was a "trigger" as far as I'm concerned because the insurance companies sure as hell didn't fix the problems we identified back then and, in fact, they are even worse now. Now is time for government to step in and take the reins a bit and make the insurance companies do what they should've been doing for.....well...like, forever!

than Weak-Kneed Harry Reid.

And if Obama is not, this healthcare legislation will be the largest giveaway to insurance companies, not just in this country, but to insurance companies world-wide, ever. In. The. History. Of. Civilization. Wonder if Obama wants that as his legacy. We'll see.

Woulda thought she'd seize it. I'm impressed. :thumbsup:

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