Senate Finance Committee defeats both “Public Option” amendments

[charlabob]

Thus making it even more clear that Health Care Reform has turned into Health Care Profitability. The Medical-Industrial complex has, once again, lied to the people most vulnerable.

Listening to the Repugs come down on the side of “elders who will lose medicare funds,” and “rationing,” would be funny, if it weren’t so serious.

Only insurance companies can ration care. If you haven’t seen Michael Moore’s “Sicko” rent it now. It may be hostile, angry, one-sided, but no one has claimed it is not true.

Health Care Reform is a moral issue. Health Insurance Reform is yet another economic issue, stemming from the supreme court decision that corporations are humans. Now corporations have human rights, but humans are well on the way to not having them.

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[elikapeka]

I’m trying not to give up hope. The other bills all have a public option in them and I’m still hopeful the final bill will include one.

There’s not much point to reform without a public option, since all we’ll have is a mandate for everyone to become clients of the big insurance companies, with no mechanism to keep costs down. Sure, they’ll have to cover everybody, but they’ll still be free to gouge you. So once again our Congress has put the interests of the big money contributors before the people they are supposed to represent. The three Democrats that voted against both versions of a public option in the Senate Finance Committee bill are Baucus, Lincoln, and Conrad. I plan to remember those names and work toward their removal when they’re up for re-election. This issue and the banking issues have shown how utterly corrupt our legislators are. It’s shameful.

I guess what we really need is campaign finance reform.

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[pigeonmom]

I can’t send links from this phone, look up Funny or Die + insurance.

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[JayDee]

My favorite sad but true fact today is the story on Slate that a polling company asked the public whether they thought government should stay out of Medicare…(http://www.slate.com/id/2230773/)

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An astonishing 62% of those who voted for the Republican said yes, and 24% (or so) of those who voted for the Democrat said yes. Worst was those 46 to 65+ who (I am averaging) were 40% against the government staying out of Medicare.

What is worse, assuming some percentage of the respondents misunderstood the question (perhaps thinking the gov’t should not mess with the gov’t run health care) or whether they really did believe that the government should stay out of Medicare?

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Someone said the public option would ration healthcare…as if we are not rationing it now.

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OK, off the soapbox.

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[JanS]

ignorance is bliss, the saying goes…in the past week I have become acquainted with 2 more people who still believe “death panels” are gonna happen…one under 40, on under 50…both conservative as heck…amazing..

sigh

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[JoB]

i guess you have to be a member of the House of

Representatives to be called a blue dog.

the good news is that once a bill is out of the finance committee it can be amended.

i guess we are about to see if there any real democrats in the senate

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