HCR bill not enough reform to get the support of U.S. Rep. Michael Arcuri (NY-24)

[mdmc]

I just heard U.S. Rep. Michael Arcuri (NY-24) on www.wamc.org . He feels that this bill is too much of a giveaway and does not offer enough support to get people access to medical treatment.
Arcuri feels that if the bill passes, it will eventually prove that we need a single payer system. He thinks that we should pass pieces of the bill (get rid of pre-existing conditions, fund community health centers) now and fight for single payer later.

[Yuugal]

1. Go Mike!

I've already called to ask him to vote no. I begged him to vote for the house version and now I'm very glad he is going to vote no to the corporate mandate theft act.

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[Yuugal]

19. I like them enough to push for a better deal

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Then he should be primaried by someone who cares about doing something for the people.

and sent home to be with his family.

[Lord Helmet]

3. Boo.

[Cha]

4. He's a blue dog..I don't trust

what he says now. "Later"? If this Bill dies..there will be no later and that will cover his ass in this right leaning district of his.

[zulchzulu]

5. Do you need a napkin to wipe the blood off your hands, Mike?

You asshole.

[GreenArrow]

21. mntbt

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[jefferson_dem]

6. Asshat...

On the wrong side of common sense ... and history. Pass pieces means get nothing done and he knows it.

I hope Arcuri gets primaried and kicked to the curb if he carries out this stupidity.

[Cha]

8. I'm just getting ready to call him again

and let him know he's fooling no one. He's scared of losing his cushy benefits when he runs again in this right leaning district against the big bad repubs who had ads about him the last time accusing him of "doing what his democratic bosses in DC told him to do":silly:.

It was close..they had to count the absentees and didn't know the outcome for a few weeks after the election.

[mdmc]

12. I doubt he will be re-elected

perhaps he will get a kush lobbying job..

[denimgirly]

7. The bill sux but seeing as how Blue Dogs and Repbs are against it -- I am leaning

to reluctantly see it pass...even if i hate the bill. but i hate Blue Dog corporate democrats and republicans more. Ironically, it seems to me Obama is more a corporate democrat than a true left supporter.

[Cha]

9. President Obama is a pragmatist

who wants to help people on a Nationwide basis.

[mdmc]

11. It is a crappy bill, but it is our crappy bill

I think it sucks, yet I support Obama fully, so I support passing this bill. If we could do better, I think Obama would try to do better. This is as good as the corporations will allow.

[Phx_Dem]

10. The status quo is fine. Why would we want to change it?

:sarcasm:

[ibegurpard]

17. why would we want to institutionalize it?

which is what this bill would do...mandate purchase of private for-profit insurance.

[swilton]

13. Thanks for doing something for the people, Mike!

[ncteechur]

14. enemy of the good in favor of the not yet. How nice for the uninsured...

he needs a primary opponent

[AllentownJake]

16. Primary opponents are popular these days

Too bad a lot of people weren't all fired up about primaries when the public option was strangled to death by Rahm with the assist of Joe Lieberman, Bayh, and Lincoln.

It was about to die before than, when Rahm's recruits from 2006 and 2008 beat it down to nothing with bats, but the Senate killed it.

[ibegurpard]

18. indeed

[SoxFan]

20. Hooray for the status quo!

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