It's not surprising that the President isn't focusing his energy on the public option.

If the Senate can pass the public option, it will, and the President will sign it.

What's surprising is watching people who don't support the public option accusing the President of not fighting for it.

The public option never had the votes to overcome a filibuster, and the only route to its passage was through reconciliation.

It came back from being dead and buried by everyone, including the media.

Why is it back? Who is responsible? Did the Senate simply decide they were going to push for it regardless of the White House? Possibly.

Some believe it's a ploy to scare Republicans. The question then is: Why use a public option that was dead and buried?

Democrats either believe they can get the votes or are willing to give it a last shot.

.... it will be fun watching it happen.

Seriously, everyone knows the level of support the public option enjoys. It doesn't change the fact that Rockefeller isn't on board with reconciliation or that Lieberman, Landrieu and Lincoln are part of the Democratic Caucus.

Nelson is 5. Sounds like you're about 6 votes short of defeat.

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Baucus
Bayh
Byrd
Carper
Landrieu
Lieberman
Lincoln
Nelson, Bill
Nelson, Ben
Webb
Rockefeller


... or more since only 23 have signed the letter.

Remember what happened when Clinton sent a bill to Congress? It got nowhere.

Too bad FDR didn't do universal health care.

you know, getting the New Deal passed and all...

Too busy to add universal health care to the mix when he could pass things with ease?

zip.....

for everyone instead of keeping the investors of the for profit companies happy.

Never once have I heard him use his position to praise other HC systems throughout the world. Did you ever hear him give a speech on the merits of the Canadian system, tell people of the US that they do not have hundreds of thousands of people going bankrupt or waiting hours/days in line for a free HC clinic.

Not once!

And that is the real shame, he had an opportunity to advance the idea of a national HC system, financed by taxes, that well over half of the citizens want.

What a lost opportunity this has been, it could have been different had he listened to what the people wanted, he had the backing and enthusiasm coming into his first term. He wasted that chance and that is the real crime.

A crime that, even if this bills is passed, millions will be left behind without any access to care and thousands will die as a result. Tens or hundreds of thousands will still be underinsured and face financial hardship and US companies will continue to struggle to compete with other nations.

Instead the insurance companies who are losing customers get bailed out by the tax payers and the medical providers who try and help him fight the for profit companies are silenced.

All he had to do was reach out a hand, even to his personal physician of 22 years who was cancelled from the WH Town Hall meeting last summer at the last minute.

That is the surprising and disappointing aspect of this past year.

It's plain as day that he sold out to insurance companies.

You are going to have a long week.

You're going to have a long seven years.

:rofl:

I don't think something nutty or fruity will keep you in good form.

Got any more doom prognostications?

Really?

:rofl:

Curious...

It's all in good fun.

...not just you, always the mindless bickering.

Curious, is all...

:shrug:

What exactly are you doing?

you're bored.

:rofl:

Ok, I understand now.

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That would be quite depressing in this labor market.

I have no valid argument, therefore the poster must be paid.

at least I hope your not :smoke:

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it's all the Senate's fault....

The President's critics have already claimed that the WH stated they're not interested in the public option. Which is it?

Is this entire OP meant to be anything other than an exercise in excuse making?

responded as if you understood it. See your previous response.

in your mind?

Or is that just a catch phrase you throw out there to muddy the waters?

not fighting for it."

The OP still spewing bullshit masquerading as "knowledge" - same shit from the same...

Do Not Resuscitate the ‘Public Option’

The advocates of this article most likely do not support the public option.

be Congresses effort so they can take full credit for it. This is something they can get constituents on their side for.