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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-29-09 11:45 PM
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-29-09 11:53 PM
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1. Done. Did it. DU it! nt
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-30-09 12:33 AM
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3. Kickin' it...
DU style!

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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-30-09 09:22 AM
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7. mid thread....
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-29-09 11:56 PM
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2. Done!
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PHIMG Donating Member (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-30-09 01:52 AM
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4. Public Option Bait and Switch
http://www.pnhp.org/blog/2009/07/20/bait-and-switch-how-the-%E2%80%9Cpublic-option%E2%80%9D-was-sold/

The people who brought us the “public option” began their campaign promising one thing but now promote something entirely different. To make matters worse, they have not told the public they have backpedalled. The campaign for the “public option” resembles the classic bait-and-switch scam: tell your customers you’ve got one thing for sale when in fact you’re selling something very different.

When the “public option” campaign began, its leaders promoted a huge “Medicare-like” program that would enroll about 130 million people. Such a program would dwarf even Medicare, which, with its 45 million enrollees, is the nation’s largest health insurer, public or private. But today “public option” advocates sing the praises of tiny “public options” contained in congressional legislation sponsored by leading Democrats that bear no resemblance to the original model.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the “public options” described in the Democrats’ legislation might enroll 10 million people and will have virtually no effect on health care costs, which means the “public options” cannot, by themselves, have any effect on the number of uninsured. But the leaders of the “public option” movement haven’t told the public they have abandoned their original vision. It’s high time they did.



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lib_wit_it Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-30-09 05:46 AM
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5. Alrighty then!
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-30-09 05:51 AM
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6. k/r
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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-30-09 10:31 AM
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8. K&R
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-30-09 12:17 PM
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9. Let's go, DU!
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