The “Government Option” dies another death
September 29, 2009A key Senate committee voted against creating a new government health insurance plan after senators sparred for hours Tuesday over the necessity of a so-called public option to compete with the private market.
The 15-to-8 vote by the Senate Finance Committee could forecast the fate of the public option in the Senate as a whole. The outcome was expected but still a defeat for liberals who view government-sponsored insurance for the middle class as a key component of President Obama’s health care overhaul.
Five committee Democrats, including Chairman Max Baucus, joined with all 10 committee Republicans to defeat the measure by Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.
The barking moonbats over at the Daily Kos are coming unglued. They are getting out the torches and pitchforks and getting ready to lynch Democrats. Have a peek at the comments. It will brighten your day. Here is a sample..
Kill the fucking bill
If it has mandates with no public option…figures the Democrats would fuck up the best chance at health care reform in decades. Thats all they are good at when they are in the majority.
Not Cowards — EVIL
These are inhumane, uncaring, greedy evil pricks.
Heh, heh, heh….
MadBrad :
Date: September 29, 2009
I have to say, reading those comments HAS made me feel MUCH better today.
Thank you for looking out for me again my friend.
Notamobster :
Date: September 29, 2009
I couldn’t agree with them more. Vote those liberals out. You’ll show them!!!
“We need to make them rue the day they voted with big insurance and against the American people.”
Marilyn K Preston :
Date: September 29, 2009
We need a public option to actually have competition. Private insurance companies are profit driven and of course they have to deny treatment, raise premiums, deny coverage, etc. Haven ‘t any of you bloggers been watching as the health insurance reps were questioned recently on TV? You will all see how bad things can get without a public option!
R.D. Walker :
Date: September 29, 2009
Marilyn, quick, run away! You are about to get run over.
MadBrad :
Date: September 29, 2009
Public Option and Competition are as mutually exclusive of each other as Marilyn K. Preston and Common Sense.
Notamobster :
Date: September 29, 2009
“an unregulated siphon into middle class bank accounts is no less than stealing to give to the rich.”
I don’t understand how this idea works… It’s wrong for individuals to make money, but putting an “unregulated syphon” into middleclass bank accounts is okay — so long as the government is controlling it?
THESE F*CKING PEOPLE ARE STUPID!!!
R.D. Walker :
Date: September 29, 2009
1) Everything is profit driven. Everything. Profits are what are left over after cost have been paid. The government is as profit driven as every other entity created by mankind, they simply ensure that costs equal revenues so that there is no profit. That is why the government is growing bloated even in the midst of a deep recession. The effect is absolutely the same. No human being is immune to the market factors.
2) The government is subject to market forces but it minimizes their effects by confiscating money not being used in the transaction to subsidize their cost/profits. Essentially they cheat.
3) There would be much, much more competition between health insurance providers today if the government didn’t mandate insurance cover services customers aren’t asking for like drug rehabilitation or hair implants and if the government eliminated restrictions on interstate sale of health insurance.
4) Finally, Marilyn, when you ask for the government option you are asking for the government, by force, to take money away from other people and give it to you. That is pretty sickening if you ask me.
Notamobster :
Date: September 29, 2009
Mary K — May I inquire as to the article of the U.S. Constitution which authorizes the National government to provide insurance to the citizenry?
Before you reply with “it’s outdated” or some other such nonsense, please remember that there is a mechanism for making changes to the document. It’s called the amendment process, which requires ratification by the people, via their respective states.
The overwhelming majority of Americans do not want a socialized healthcare catastrophuck in this country.
R.D. Walker :
Date: September 29, 2009
Sigh…. our trolls so seldom come back. We have drive-by trolls.
Roy Ryder :
Date: September 29, 2009
So, does this mean that the liberals in the House who declared that they wouldn’t vote for this without a public option now?
Air Force Brat :
Date: September 29, 2009
My thanks to the Revo. Every time I’m in a foul mood, I come here and subsequently feel much less foul.
James :
Date: September 29, 2009
Marilyn K Preston:
“Option” means having the choice not to participate. Do you really think I’ll have the “option” not to pay for this thinly veiled income redistribution plan to buy emotion driven freeloader votes?
Go out and get a real job with insurance benefits, and not a fake government one.
RUDE JUDE :
Date: September 30, 2009
I LOVE MY REVO COMMRADES.
R.D. Walker :
Date: September 30, 2009
Well Jude! Good morning Sunshine. We love you too!
RUDE JUDE :
Date: September 30, 2009
Aww, shucks! Right back atcha Babe!
Tatersalad :
Date: September 30, 2009
To the Democrats in Congress who don’t quite get it: I want to offer a personal pledge. I – and a lot of other people – have every intention of removing you from Congress in the next election if you stand in the way of health care legislation that the people want. That is not a hollow or idle threat. We will come to your district and we will work against you, first in the primary and, if we have to, in the general election. No public option!