The Private Mandate Sausage Machine ~ Dennis Kucinich

[DKRC]

I've already signed the petition, but thought I'd share the latest email from DK.

Dennis Kucinich - www.Kucinich.us

The Private Mandate Sausage Machine
While the political process in Washington suffers through its grotesque pantomime on health care, let us prepare our neighborhoods, our communities, our states for the eventual triumph of single payer health care.

Dear Friends,

It is said one should not ask how sausage or laws are made. Are you concerned about a public option? Let me share with you some insight about health care legislation which may not be good for your health.

A lesson in politics. The Kucinich Prediction: Here's what's going to happen ...

1. House will make a big deal about keeping/putting a public option in HR3200 because it competes with insurance companies and will keep insurance rates low.
2. The White House will refer to the President's speech last week where he spoke favorably of the public option.
3. The Senate will kill the competitive public option in favor of non-competitive "co-ops". Senate leaders like Kent Conrad have said the votes to pass a public option were never there in the Senate.
4. The bill will come to a House-Senate Conference Committee without the public option.
5. House Democrats will be told to support the conference report on the legislation to support the President.
6. The bill will pass, not with a "public option" but with a private mandate requiring 30 million uninsured to buy private health insurance (if one doesn't already have it). If you are broke, you may get a subsidy. If you are not broke, you will get a fine if you do not purchase insurance.

This legislative sausage will be celebrated as a new breakthrough and will be packaged as health insurance reform. However, the bill may require a Surgeon General's warning label: Your Money or Your Life!

The bill that Congress passes may pale in comparison to the bill that millions of Americans will get every month/year for having or not having private health insurance.

It will take four years for the new legislation to go into effect. During that time we are going to build a constituency of millions in support of real health care, a constituency which will be recognized and a cause which is right and just: Health Care as a Civil Right.

Join our efforts. Sign the petition. Contribute. Insure a democratic future.

Thank you.
Dennis





Paid for by the Re-Elect Congressman Kucinich Committee

PO Box 110475 | Cleveland | OH | 44111 | 216-252-9000

[Desertrose]

1. Dennis never gives up...thank you Dennis! n/t

[Laelth]

2. Does that mean he plans to vote for the watered-down bill?

I hope he doesn't. I am relying on the Progressive Caucus to save us from disastrous legislation of the kind DK describes.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Echo In Light]

3. "This legislative sausage will be celebrated as a new breakthrough and will be packaged as ...

...health insurance reform."

K&R for DK!

[Cronus Protagonist]

4. Once again, Dennis is right!

Dennis for President!

[emilyg]

5. k/r

[Greyhound]

6. ..

[rudy23]

7. Again, we're seeing why DK was the target of an orchestrated smear job going back a few months.

He's the strongest voice of reason out there challenging the status quo. As always.

[Overseas]

8. K&R. Already signed. //nt

[davez]

9. Is there anyone comparable to DJK?

Is anyone similar to dennis in quality of truth and service to people politics as opposed to obamatics who believe all the lies and promises? I saw a multitude of you pick obama somehow affected by a fear of not having a winner has left us with a lot of empty promise and mislabelled bill packaging... How can anyone on this site support anyone but kucinich? Who else compares? Who else tells it like it is 100% of the time?

Im dead serious. I SEEK to find more i can trust and i never found anyone so far since kucinich who gives me that feeling of decency and doesnt exude fakeness as clearly your buddy obama does...

Plz help me locate anothr honest politician! I wish it wasnt an oxymoron.

If we fear defeat and monitor media matters we will only make bad choices on our elected peeps. Ditch your cable today. Give me someone real if u arent going to follow djk then who is left?

He wont be around forever an is one of a kind. May we see more like him and some day get some others who have Standards so we can eventually get a bill up without sneaky profit politics defeating the purpose and fooling the mainstream idiots who are only as smart as the cnn fox msn heads allow. Those news places never give djk,s side of a story... And so everyone is still brainwashed.

Once again:list who u think can b trusted so we can squint at the list pr perhaps i will learn of someone new....

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Signed the petition. Thanks for posting. K&R

[flvegan]

11. Thank you, Dennis.

I really hope that Dennis is wrong on this one, I really do. Or that Obama sends it back and tells them to stop dicking around already. Past experience and current perception tells me that he's more than most likely going to be dead on about this one too.

[DKRC]

12. kick

:kick:

[salib]

13. Dennis is always right there where we need him

[DKRC]

14. That's why I'm on his mailing list

I skip emails from some folks if I'm busy, but read everything from Dennis.