Democrats strip single-payer healthcare proposal from health overhaul

A government-run healthcare program may become an "option" for those who don't have employer-sponsored healthcare coverage, but a government-run healthcare system will not.
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  1. #1    "..states may be given the option to opt out, but won’t be allowed to opt in.."
    That's just wrong.
    The whole argument against a state-by-state system was that it would "form a patchwork of fifty different systems, a compliance nightmare", well so does opt-out.
    written by CwV since 20 days 20 hours 27 minutesCwV
  2. #2    Some ideas are just too good to vote on. That's why we have Neocon Nancy. She can remove the best ideas "by (fake) consensus".

    Even when a majority vote has already adopted Single Payer. Even when Single Payer has more co-sponsors than Obama-care.

    Because what is right for the health denial mafia is right for Neocon Nancy's bribe income.
    written by Mike5000 since 20 days 19 hours 35 minutesMike5000
  3. #3    The longer this farce continues, the more it appears that the only viable option is to kill this bill and try again. A bad bill is much worse than no bill.
    written by neoconned since 20 days 15 hours 40 minutesneoconned
  4. #4    The Dems have guaranteed they will lose seats in 2010 and possibly the White House in 2012.

    I thought Obama's going to Dover was either a) sincere or b) a political move. The longer I look at it, the more it seems to be a cynical gesture. cynical because, even though he might actually have feelings about what he was seeing and doing the other morning, he's going to send additional troops there anyway and his visit can be used to say, "See? He really care."

    Yeah, he cares enough to keep those flights coming into Dover AFB.
    End this fucking war, now.
    Fuck everything else, including health care. Obama never got behind a health care reform package that had the American people's best interests in it and he isn't putting America's interests first in Afghanistan.
    Get the fuck out or lose in 2012.
    written by matt since 20 days 15 hours 6 minutesmatt
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