Top House Progressive: Backing Public Option “Trigger” Would Be “Surrender”

[babylonsister]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/health-care/top-house-progressive-backing-public-option-trigger-would-be-surrender/


Top House Progressive: Backing Public Option “Trigger” Would Be “Surrender”

Dem Rep. Raul Grijalva, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, is issuing a strong rebuke to fellow liberals who may be inclined to accept a compromise involving a public option “trigger,” saying it would amount to waving a “white flag” and “a surrender.”

Grijalva made the claim after I checked in with his office for a comment on today’s Roll Call story reporting that some “key” House progressives are open to such a compromise. In a statement emailed to me, Grijalva said that most House progressives would in fact stand firm and still vote against a bill with a trigger:

“The vast majority of CPC is not prepared to wave a white flag on public option. A trigger would be a surrender.”

If the “vast majority” of the five dozen or so House progressives did vote against the bill, as Grijalva vows they would, it wouldn’t pass.

Also noteworthy: Grijalva’s description of a trigger as “surrender” leaves liberals no wiggle room to support it. When it comes to the trigger, House progressive leaders are refusing to budge.

[daa]

1. I hope he is right

if there is no public option it will be like the drug plan. Waste 3 weeks finding a plan that covers SOME of your drugs, pick that plan and then they change what they cover.

I say we are feeding spoon fed BS and this is definitely going down. Nothing would be better thant the shit they are going to try to pass. Preserve the status quo at all costs.

Milton Friedman wrote a book Tyranny of the Status Quo. He said a president, any president, has a very short window to get change done before the status quo rises up and stops change. I would argue that by not fighting, not offering a plan, and not getting it down before August, Obama has missed his opportunity. The window is slammed shut.

[Donnachaidh]

2. GREAT -- kill Baucus's POS handout to the insurance companies

He needs to be publicly humiliated for even proposing this GARBAGE.

[damntexdem]

3. Good for them -- we need a public option available to all.

I don't know whether I would opt for it, but I want the choice, as should we all.