http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5923353Oh my.
niyad (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-25-09 04:14 PM
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kerry wants TEN-YEAR delay in public option for health care
what in the name of sanity is going on with him?
Kerry Pushes For Public Option Trigger In Closed-Door Meeting
In a closed-door meeting of Senate Finance Committee Democratic members and their staff Wednesday evening, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) suggested that the committee bill include a ten-year delay between passage of health care reform and the implementation of a public option that Americans could buy into, according to two Democratic aides.
Under the plan floated by Kerry, a public health care option would only be triggered by private insurance companies failing to meet certain criteria after ten years. Known as the "trigger" in legislative lingo, the idea is vociferously opposed by health care advocates who consider it the death of reform.
Reform advocates say that the system is already broken and that there's no need to wait any longer, also warning that the insurance industry might be able to game the criteria and prevent the public plan trigger from ever being pulled.
One source familiar with Kerry's unexpected suggestion said that the idea seemed to have little impact on the meeting and that the senators quickly moved on.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/25/kerry-pushes-f...
That's the Bostonian Billionaire, so fleet of fame.
It's an enormous bonfire, all the primitives upset with their man of 2004.
Lifelong Protester (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-25-09 04:16 PM
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2. NO WAY!
sasquatch (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-25-09 04:16 PM
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3. Pink Tutu Kerry rides in to **** up the day once more
BeyondGeography (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-25-09 04:20 PM
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8. The Senate is where the country goes to die
The silly primitive:
SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-25-09 04:20 PM
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9. The government "needs" for the rest of the "greatest generation" and a significant number of boomers to be "gone", before the "numbers" work.. It's just that simple
You got that right, silly primitive. Digest it now, so that you may understand it.
undeterred (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-25-09 04:21 PM
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10. Kerry needs to be replaced.
The rest of this big bonfire's pretty much like the above, with apologists for the Bostonian Billionaire interrupting every so often, tossing more gasoline onto the bonfire.
