Senate still not talking public option

[populistdriven]

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/14/healthcare/

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's speech on healthcare Wednesday night may have helped sell the reform plan to voters, but it doesn't appear to have had much of an affect on the six moderate members of the Senate Finance Committee who are trying to write a bipartisan bill by this week.

Democrats and Republicans alike in the so-called "Gang of Six" said over the weekend that they're still not interested in including a public option in their draft legislation, despite Obama's defense of the idea last week.

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The group is set to resume talks this week, and Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., says he'll release his proposed draft in the next few days, whether Republicans get on board or not.

But for now, it sounds like progressives will have to try to hammer a public option into the legislation in a House-Senate conference if they want to keep it in the bill. That might still be possible: Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the new chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is a strong supporter of the public option, which most of the House Democratic conference also wants. The White House, though, could wind up having the final say.

The three Dems in the gang are from Montana, New Mexico and North Dakota
The three Republicans are from Maine, Wyoming and Iowa
Remember in November, voters.

[imdjh]

1. whores to the insurance companies

And the worst part of it is that they know that Single Payer is inevitable, so all this is about delaying it long enough for these companies to just steal America blind before going into some other scam (like reverse mortgages or burial insurance).

[ddeclue]

2. Sun still rises in east - still setting in west... film at eleven.

:eyes:

[Merlot]

3. That makes them as guilty as the health care executives

People will die because of their actions. It's firmly on their hands now.

[WatchWhatISay]

4. Then they are making their bill irrelevant

And we need to let them know it.

[aquart]

5. Those are low population states!!!

HOW FUCKING DARE THEY ATTEMPT TO DECIDE WHAT THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WILL BE FORCED TO DO TO SAVE OUR LIVES! HOW DARE THEY!

Corpses won't be littering their empty streets.