Whores is the operative word. Someone should open a website to track the whores who ignore the will of the people, and strongly promote the site so all can be aware of the vast numbers of these pieces of crap.
Posted by jimbo at June 18, 2009 09:44 AMNews Flash---the Do Nothing Repubs didn't go along with the New Deal in 1932. No bipartisanship didn't stop FDR---progress still had to be done.
No actual health care expert (not on the payroll of the insurance cos) thinks that there is any reform possible without a single, independent public insurance option. That's where the "expertise" is on this issue.
If we had today's Dems (and lobbying money) in 1932 we wouldn't have passed a single New Deal program.
If we had today's Dems (and lobbying money) in 1932 we wouldn't have passed a single New Deal program.
While I agree in the spirit of your point, The Great Depression/New Deal era had a tremendous factor that we don't have. Yet.
People were not only losing homes, but literally starving in the streets. Farmers - the people whom grow food - couldn't feed their families. It had such lasting impression that until he died last month, my grandfather would invite anyone to his table if they needed a meal.
The country was steps away from rebellion if not anarchy several times during this era. The powers and principalities literally had to be dragged to the table to accept some reforms.
And I think we're going to see another horrific late summer and fall. I despair what it may cost us to get real reform.
Posted by idiosynchronic at June 18, 2009 11:02 AMA BS reform with bipartisan support and the Dems own it and look bought. Real reform blocked by Repubs and then they own the failure in the next election. Seams kind of basic to me.
Posted by allansfca at June 18, 2009 06:12 PMI don't get how the monitarists and free marketers can be so against competition. Isn't that a core belief for them? Their knee jerk reaction to anything run by government seams more ideological than logical.
Posted by allansfca at June 18, 2009 06:17 PM"competition....core belief for them..."
Everything out of conservative mouths is an empty slogan that is intoned if it supports a policy, and ignored when it doesn't.
Their "principles" are meaningless BS to them. What their plutocrat masters want determines their positions almost every time.
Posted by euzoius at June 18, 2009 07:00 PMNow you're criticizing Obama's choice Daschle to shepard national health care reforms?
Come on folks, why haven't y'all picked up on the Swiss model of single payer? Or is that just too cheap for ya. You just gotta have some big bureaucracy managing the hell out of this.
Why are all the doctors going to Texas? Tort reform cuts cost of malpractice insurance. They can't get doctors certified fast enough in Texas. Get tort reform and maybe doctors can practice everywhere. Aren't there shortages of the OB side of doctoring in LV, Nevada and southern Florida? Fix torts and there won't be. Our president wants to build this house of cards saying they all depend on each other. Reform torts, set maximums, ease the doctors insurance bills. Let them practice medicine again and not paperwork.
Posted by peter at June 18, 2009 07:10 PMI had great hope in Obama, but I see now that his caution is what got him elected. Pushing people just isn't in his DNA. He saw his own mother suffer needlessly while dying, tortured by the insurance companies, and if that wasn't enough to light a fire in him than nothing now will be.
Meanwhile, the Republicans will do whatever it takes to crush what they see as the New Deal redux. It makes you despair, really, because if we don't get real healthcare reform now we never will.
But Democrats (Obama included) will solemnly tell us this is the best they could do, and what a leap forward it is, etc. While they get the best government-provided health care on the planet.
Posted by digusted at June 18, 2009 07:49 PMI had great hope in Obama, but I see now that his caution is what got him elected. Pushing people just isn't in his DNA. He saw his own mother suffer needlessly while dying, tortured by the insurance companies, and if that wasn't enough to light a fire in him than nothing now will be.
Meanwhile, the Republicans will do whatever it takes to crush what they see as the New Deal redux. It makes you despair, really, because if we don't get real healthcare reform now we never will.
But Democrats (Obama included) will solemnly tell us this is the best they could do, and what a leap forward it is, etc. While they get the best government-provided health care on the planet.
Posted by disgusted at June 18, 2009 07:50 PMTime for a No Uninsured Left Behind Act.
Posted by paulo at June 18, 2009 08:28 PMReform torts, set maximums, ease the doctors insurance bills.
So what if they kill and cripple people - you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.
Posted by bugman at June 18, 2009 11:53 PM