Republican senator in Democratic congress to write defining legislation for Democratic president.

BuyingThyme

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Sun Oct-18-09 11:05 PM
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Republican senator in Democratic congress to write defining legislation for Democratic president.

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The Obama administration signaled a willingness to compromise on a proposed government-run health- insurance company by praising Senator Olympia Snowe's plan to start the entity only if private insurers don't meet targets," Bloomberg reports. Snowe, a Maine Republican, has "proposed triggering the so-called public option if private insurers fail to curb insurance-premium increases....

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/167759.php

Keep it dry.

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debbierlus

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Sun Oct-18-09 11:08 PM
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1. Olympia Snow is a pathetic 'bipartisan' cover for selling out to the corporations

Shame on Obama.

Shame on any dem who goes along with the insurance corporation wetdream bill.

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WatchWhatISay

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Sun Oct-18-09 11:11 PM
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2. I'm sure the insurance companies will be trembling in their boots

If we don't have the spine to do something real now, why would we do it later?

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maglatinavi

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Mon Oct-19-09 12:24 AM
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5. Olympia, etc.

I am sorry to say that I am actually angry with Obama. Recently I was concerned, now I am angry...no change, we cann't, no transperancy, what next???:nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

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Skittles

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Sun Oct-18-09 11:12 PM
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3. the targets will be crap and the time given will be long

this is kissing insurance company ass :puke:

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tblue

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Mon Oct-19-09 12:23 AM
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4. In the NYT both Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich ops are about how Obama

compromises too much. "Common ground is not always higher ground," according to The New Republic (quoted by Dowd). I really have had it with capitulating to the right and never the left!

I don't wanna hear any more of his speeches. Talk is cheap. I change the channel when he makes a speech on tv anymore. Really. I'm thinking of getting a trial separation from my president.

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