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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on August 16, 2009, 02:23:50 PM
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WASHINGTON – Bowing to Republican pressure, President Barack Obama's administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new health care system.
Facing mounting opposition to the overhaul, administration officials left open the chance for a compromise with Republicans that would include health insurance cooperatives instead of a government-run plan. Such a concession probably would enrage Obama's liberal supporters but could deliver a much-needed victory on a top domestic priority opposed by GOP lawmakers.
Officials from both political parties reached across the aisle in an effort to find compromises on proposals they left behind when they returned to their districts for an August recess. Obama had sought the government to run a health insurance organization to help cover the nation's almost 50 million uninsured, but he never made it a deal breaker in a broad set of ideas that has Republicans unified in opposition.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that government alternative to private health insurance is "not the essential element" of the administration's health care overhaul. The White House would be open to co-ops, she said, a sign that Democrats want a compromise so they can declare a victory.
Under a proposal by Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., consumer-owned nonprofit cooperatives would sell insurance in competition with private industry, not unlike the way electric and agriculture co-ops operate, especially in rural states such as his own.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul
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Subterfuge, that's all it is. I don't trust him or his handlers at all. He's trying to get his numbers back up.
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I don't trust them as far as I can throw them.
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He is just the same liar he has always been nothing will ever make me trust him ever
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Rule #1: When you have a liberal down on the ground and asking for a "compromise"... you ingnore him and go for the throat. :fuelfire:
This is just like Tora Bora when AQ asked for a truce.
We need a Waterloo to stop Obama's Socialism. No compromise, no Co-op, go for the win like you did against Hillarycare in 93. :hammer:
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Rule #1: When you have a liberal down on the ground and asking for a "compromise"... you ingnore him and go for the throat. :fuelfire:
This is just like Tora Bora when AQ asked for a truce.
We need a Waterloo to stop Obama's Socialism. No compromise, no Co-op, go for the win like you did against Hillarycare in 93. :hammer:
Rule #2: Follow rule #1 to the letter.
The libs at the dump must be apoplectic. :popcorn:
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I agree with everyone else. No reason to trust them, can't stop until they're buried in wet cement and it's cured for a minimum of 10,000 years.
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Subterfuge, that's all it is. I don't trust him or his handlers at all. He's trying to get his numbers back up.
Clearly.
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Co-op, public option, same is same. Still trying to convince us we can pick up the clean end of the turd.
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Apparently there is trouble in Paradise, the Odammit administration is backpedaling frantically today on the "No public option" words of Sebelius over the weekend. Seems it is a do-or-die issue with the
Commies errr, 'Progressive Democrats,' and they would rather see the whole package die than sell out (as they see it) by passing a bill without it! Most enterraining!
:cheersmate:
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Memphis grad and a hottie.
Howdy Howdy, glad to be here.
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Apparently there is trouble in Paradise, the Odammit administration is backpedaling frantically today on the "No public option" words of Sebelius over the weekend. Seems it is a do-or-die issue with the Commies errr, 'Progressive Democrats,' and they would rather see the whole package die than sell out (as they see it) by passing a bill without it! Most enterraining!
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I wonder if Rahm has banned Sebelius' media access yet. Everything will be cleared by him from now on. Obama is looking for "something" to call a victory--and she just let the cat out of the bag.
They can count, they are willing to float the idea of Co-op because they know their plan won't pass. Their big problem is that there isn't any Co-op legislation in the House, and I don't think it could pass the House.