Harry Reid: Trigger Happy

[babylonsister]

This isn't good dammit.

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/09/25/harry-reid-trigger-happy/


Harry Reid: Trigger Happy
Posted by Karen Tumulty Friday, September 25, 2009 at 6:16 pm


According to the Las Vegas Sun, the Senate Majority Leader thinks putting a trigger on the public option is "a pretty doggone good idea":

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called the proposed public option trigger a “pretty doggone good idea” during a telephone-town hall on health care reform with Nevadans.

Reid supports the idea from Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, which would establish standards and goals the insurance companies must hit within a specified timeframe. If companies miss the deadline, the public option would kick in.

“My first choice is a public option, because I think it will create competition and make the insurance companies more honest,” Reid said Thursday. “My No. 2 choice is the trigger that Snowe talked about.”

Reid said that he preferred the trigger, “which is a pretty doggone good idea,” to the proposed co-operative model some moderate Democrats support.

[Bandit]

1. Well I agree with his sentiments

Except I might go even further. My First option is "Single Payer" next would be "Public Option" and then would come the "Trigger" If the time frame was short enough and the goal precise enough I could certainly take it before the "Co-Op" option or the "Cut Taxes" option the Republicans support.

[Autumn]

2. I gotta say

replacing Reid is "a pretty doggone good idea". That is an idea I can get behind.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. " Co-operative model " is that like Once upon a time or Greenspan

expecting bankers to police themselves?Some people need incentive to do the right thing ,some people need a gun against their head ,hopefully Grassleys stories of woe wont be the guns that work.