Sit Back & Enjoy The Fight
Now that Kathleen Sebelius and Kent Conrad have said that the public option is essentially off the table, something that I’m not buying BTW, the progressives are throwing a hissy fit:
On the same day that a Cabinet member signaled the administration’s willingness to forego inclusion of a public health insurance option in the final version of health care reform legislation, a Texas Democrat who is also a registered nurse suggested that the public option might be a deal breaker for at least some House Democrats.
“It would be very, very difficult,” to support a bill that lacked a public health insurance option, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, “because, without the public option, we’ll have the same number of people uninsured. If the insurance companies wanted to insure these people now, they’d be insured.
Johnson added that “an option that would give the private insurance companies a little competition” is “the only way” to be sure that insurance is available to low income people and people without employer-provided coverage.
This is getting delicious. The moderate-sounding Democrats are urging the radicals-progressives to not commit political suicide. The radicals-progressives hold safe seats so they’re rejecting that offer. A food fight is about to start between the moderate-sounding Democrats and the radicals-progressives.
That means one thing to me: pull up a soft recliner and watch the food fight destroy the Democratic Party. There’s nothing quite as fun as watching the Democrats get complacent before starting a food fight.
PS- Feel free to grab an adult beverage or light up a fine cigar if you’re inclined to do so as these things have been known to enhance the enjoyment.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
August 17th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
There is a “public option” health care right now. It’s called “If you really have a medical problem, go to an emergency room.” They have to treat your malady. If they don’t the guvmint will come down on them like a ton of bricks, and the patient can sue the hospital for so much they’ll not see a penny of profit for years.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:01 am
I never thought our government would fail us so badly. If you think corporate greed is behind many of our problems wait and see what the government has in store for us in the near future!
This is nothing but a greedy power grab by Pelosi, Reid, Obama and the other socialists. The pain these people are inflicting on this country is unreal – and all under the guise of “fairness” and helping people.