So Who Else Had To Go Under The Bus To Pass This Thing ???

[WillyT]

I've got liberals, women, blacks (Sharpton & Watts held a conference on racial health disparities not addressed in this bill just the other day)...

Who am I forgetting???

:shrug:

[QC]

1. LBGTs, as always with this administration.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7962037&mesg_id=7962037

[stray cat]

2. How much do progressives really care about people having access to good health care?

Perhaps not so much and just something to blog about....

[WillyT]

5. Really ??? You Must Be Very Young...

Progressive Movement

Ideas

Positive liberty
Women's suffrage
Economic progressivism
Economic interventionism
Fair trade
Mixed economy
Social justice
Labor rights
Civil liberties
Feminism
Women's rights
Social welfare
Social progressivism
Ethical conservation
Efficiency Movement
Techno-progressivism


Programs

Square Deal
New Nationalism
The New Freedom
New Deal
Second Bill of Rights
Fair Deal
New Frontier
Great Society

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era

Yeah... what have we done for you lately, eh???

:wtf:

:banghead:

[truedelphi]

7. Thanks for such a forceful response.

Given that the Ring of Power has been strengthened over the past two decades, with the rise of the Upper One Percent controlling the candidates we vote for, the machinery that counts the votes, the Globalization of the work force so that jobs are overseas, etc, it is more of a struggle than ever to manage to affect meaningful change.

Obama punked us, and so the fact that so many of us rallied to put in "Change we can believe in" still shows that we try to have teeth. But it is hard when the Corporate Powers that be choose the candidates for us, and marginalize anyone like Kucinich, or outright kill others, like Welltone.

[midnight]

3. Any one who wanted a choice. And the only option that offers a choice is Medicare.

Those who wanted access to this avenue were thrown under the bus.

[northernlights]

4. older people

medicare budget got slashed, didn't it?

[butterfly77]

6. Repugs are all over the tv..

crying like they are so pure and they don't make deals..

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. Those adults with preexisting conditions.

Anyone who believes in "high risk pools" as access to health care needs to have his/her head checked.

[Enrique]

9. 'government bureaucrats'

“I don’t believe we should give government bureaucrats or insurance company bureaucrats more control over health care in America” -- President Obama.