If anyone like me was amazed at what happen to the Health Care (now Health Insurance) Bill I believe reading this article and finding out who is steering the White House Administration boat will explain an awful lot. The DLC's affiliated think tank is the Progressive Policy Institute - Will Marshall President and Founder, Progressive Policy Institute posted this article on Dec. 17th for those that didn't see it on Huffington Post and it says who and what the DLC's "vision" is:
Will Marshall
December 17, 2009
Will Liberals Really Kill Health Reform? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-marshall/will-liberals-really-kill_b_395999.htmlThe never-ending story of health care reform took another turn for the weird this week.
It began with liberals working themselves into a lather over Sen. Joe Lieberman's threat to scuttle reform unless the Medicare buy-in was dropped. Now Howard Dean, liberal paladin and former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is campaigning openly to kill a Democratic president's top domestic priority. Vermont's Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Senate's sole self-avowed social democrat, warns the White House that he is not a certain vote for health reform, though it's unlikely that he would cast a vote with the Republicans.......
What prompted Dean's scream on health reform was the decision by Senate leaders, backed by the White House, to drop both the public option and the Medicare buy-in in pursuit of the 60 votes needed for passage. In a characteristically self-righteous outburst in today's Washington Post, Dean helpfully accused his fellow Democrats of selling out to the health insurance industry..........
Obama, however, has been admirably consistent about his top-line goals: expand coverage through public subsidies and mandates; prevent insurance companies from denying coverage or dropping people who get sick; drive medicine toward higher quality and lower costs; and do it all in a way that adds nothing to the deficit. The Senate bill, though riddled with imperfections and compromises, does an acceptable job of advancing those goals and moving the process forward to the final stage: a conference to reconcile House and Senate versions of reform.
So liberals have a choice. They can torpedo a bill backed by a Democratic president and nearly all Senate Democrats, a bill that would cover 30 million uninsured Americans, discipline health insurance companies, and begin the challenging task of containing health care cost growth, in favor of alternatives that stand no chance at all of passage. Or they can pocket the undoubted progressive gains embedded in the House and Senate bills, help their party pass landmark legislation, and keep working to build support in the country for their vision of health reform. Congress meets every year and there will be ample opportunities to refine whatever emerges from today's legislative scrum.
Despite the public infighting and fratricidal rending of garments, congressional Democrats are only one vote away from an historic victory on health care reform. So progressives should stop obsessing over Joe Lieberman, turn off Howard Dean, and help Barack Obama bring home the prize.
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And from the DLC site:
http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=893&kaid=86&subid=85The Next Generation of Leaders From statehouses to Congress to the Obama Cabinet, the DLC has an unparalleled track record in identifying and promoting tomorrow's leaders. Rahm Emanuel, Hillary Clinton, Janet Napolitano, Ken Salazar, Kathleen Sebelius, Tom Vilsack, Evan Bayh, Tom Carper, Mark Warner, Ron Kirk, Larry Summers, Christine Gregoire, Martin O'Malley, and Harold Ford, Jr., are just a few of the leaders who have worked closely with us over the years on their way to becoming influential Democratic voices.
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This is where the "vision" we see now in the culmination of this bill came from.
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