No surer way to resurrect GOP than to mandate Americans purchase overpriced, inadequate insurance:

We are unfortunately seeing a contagion of Democratic "leaders" advocating seemingly limitless compromise in order to pass healthcare reform:






But there is no faster way to resurrect the GOP than to pass a mandate that Americans purchase overpriced, inadequate coverage.

If there is not a viable public option for all Americans, health "reform" will not be reform at all, but a step backwards.

The idea that passing reform is so important that we should be willing to sell out on the basic principle of a public option is an idea of shortsighted, spineless politicians.



Durbin needs to listen to Howard Dean words:






There IS something much worse than not passing health reform: Passing a bill without a viable public option.

And if the supporters of the public option, such as Durbin, do not make clear that the public option is not negotiable, the Republicans will win again.




We will NEVER enact a public plan unless we make known our commitment to DEFEAT any sellout bill that does not contain a viable public option, or one that allows insurance companies to continue to cherry pick (a practice that, combined with demands that the public plan be self-supporting, will economically cripple the public plan, by making it a high risk, high priced dumping ground whose primary function will be to enable the insurance companies to continue to sell overpriced policies to low risk demographic groups.)


Durbin needs to stop lecturing progressives about the need to compromise. Instead, he would do better to grow some gonads, and take the fight to the special interests.






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Add to what you already said: tax the benefits of people who get health insurance from their employers.