Amid all the health care Doom and Gloom

[kristopher]

I still see a path. My previous post follows and then a blip from a blog that relates.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6372165
How will you react if Obama gets a GREAT health care bill out of Congress?

I've heard a lot of grousing accompanying the idea that he has failed us or sold out or is a lot less capable than we believed when we elected him. Fair enough, it is a long slog to the finish line, the stakes are huge and the tension is at the quivering, muscle-snap level.

But what if he IS Mr.Cool who is waaaaay ahead of everyone?

What if everything we are seeing - from Max Bauccus flipping his position; to Weiner getting a single payer option scored by the CBO at the last minute; to a wild and wooley August recess where the 'thugs establish that they are either whack-jobs or they are opposing the bill because it costs too much - what if all that and every other event involved in this roller coaster ride is planned to deliver an outcome that we all want, single payer?

What will you do if they give us "Medicare for All"?

Added to update: Weiner's office has confirmed that his Medicare for All single payer amendment IS being scored.





House Leadership Seeks CBO Score for HR676; single-payer will get a floor vote

Mon, 08/31/2009 - 1:26am — Sarah
Democratic members of the House of Representatives are hearing the people. Keep the pressure on! It started with the tenacious Anthony Weiner of New York. California's Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, changed her mind in July and said single payer would get an up-or-down floor vote. Now Maryland's Steny Hoyer, House Majority Leader, says the Congressional leadership has asked the Congressional Budget Office to score House Resolution 676, entitled "To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, and for other purposes" -- aka United States National Health Insurance Act. This bill's other short title is the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act -- and according to SinglePayerAction, Hoyer's told a constituent he'll address single payer and the effort to get HR 676 scored at a town hall this week:

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) said on Friday that he will address the vote on single payer and the effort to get the CBO to score it at a town hall meeting on health care he is scheduled to attend in Waldorf, Maryland on Tuesday. On Friday, Hoyer told a constituent, Dr. Carol Paris, that he would raise the single payer issue at his town hall meeting on Tuesday. “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has put single payer on the table,” Paris told Single Payer Action. “She has called for an up or down vote on the Weiner amendment when Congress convenes in the fall. I pointed that out to Congressman Hoyer, along with the fact that the Congressional leadership has just called to have HR 676 scored by the Congressional Budget Office.” “So those two events – asking to have HR 676 scored, and calling for an up or down vote on the Weiner amendment – puts single payer on the table as an option in the ongoing health care debate,” Dr. Paris said.

http://www.correntewire.com/house_leadership_seeks_cbo_score_hr676_single_payer_will_get_floor_vote

[laughingliberal]

1. I would say if that were true it would be great

I apologize for my skepticism but there is just too much leaking coming out of that Whitehouse indicating a big cave-in.

[kristopher]

2. Bookmark the thread and let's take it up again after the final bill... nt