Senator signals possible health care compromise.....compromise my ass

the trigger will never fire...i repeat...never


CNN) -- A moderate Senate Democrat said Sunday he could support a bill that would trigger government-funded public health insurance if new health care legislation failed to deliver on its promises.

The comment by Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska on CNN's "State of the Union" signaled a possible compromise on the most contentious issue in efforts to overhaul the nation's ailing health care system.

The so-called trigger mechanism would create a public insurance option if a new health care bill failed to meet certain goals or thresholds for expanded coverage and lower costs within a set time.

Support from moderate Democrats such as Nelson is considered crucial for getting health care legislation that includes a public option through the Senate. Republicans fiercely oppose the concept, while liberal Democrats strongly

favor it and more moderate Democrats express concerns about the cost and viability.

"If, somehow, the private market doesn't respond the way that it's supposed to, then it would trigger a public option or a government-run option," Nelson said.

He said such a provision should be used "only as a fail-safe backstop to the process."

"And when I say trigger ... I don't mean a hair trigger," Nelson said. "I mean a true trigger -- one that would only apply if there isn't the kind of competition in the business that we believe there would be."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/06/health.care/index.html

does not translate to one actually being made.

...said Sunday he could support a bill that...

Both you and they knew whatever you were talking about was NEVER gonna happen.

is their vote for robust public option or single payer health care. Otherwise, they can go sit in the corner and STFU while the adults do the real work.

They should lose their committee chairmanship of wherever they sit, and forced into an underling role.

Just about as timely as putting Bristol Palin on birth control.

for failing to fulfill the their contracts......it doesn't happen. The examples are Haliburton, KBR, Blackwater, etc., etc., etc., etc. They are never fined, never punished, only have their contracts renewed at higher costs. Soldiers have died because contracters failed in their obligations. Patients will die because a trigger will never be pulled.