Politico is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D, Nev) will announce today that he has the votes to include the so-called public option in the Senate’s version of the healthcare legislation.
Leadership sources tell me that Reid, who spoke with virtually every member of his 60-member caucus this weekend, currently has between 56 and 57 votes for the opt-out, which is being pushed by Sen. Charles Schumer, according to Democratic aides.
A public option with a delayed “trigger” — supported by the White House and Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe — has between 58 and 59 backers.
The public option policy is really a false front that will lead to a total government take over of healthcare in the U.S.
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I am following the events closely and still I am undecided on the affects of the public option I am taking a poll to see what the general public thinks about the current debate can you please contribute to it
http://stellersurvey.com/s.aspx?u=9C68E165-018B-4895-B9FB-B8261353452A&
Looks the like the predictable “opposition” to the throw-away government option plan was put out today by Snowe and the usual moderate D types…..again, I think that was all show to scare the right and keep the left fired up…..Reid was just throwing it out there to appease the based, keep up maximum leverage on the R and special interests, and dropping it will allow Obama to swoop in and appear “Moderate”…..as I have said all along - this was nothing but a head fake to keep our eyes of the really damaging elements!
While its good that this “government option” scam is going to be killed off, its BY FAR not the most onerous provision in the Obamacare takeover….
The Unconstitutional Individual Mandate will erode our freedom and individual liberty and is just as surely a government HC takeover as the government option scam……we need to keep the pressure up and let our lawmakers both R and D know we still oppose this as well as the anti-competative “preexisting conditions” and “communtinty rating” mandates!
We need to let the know that we still see the Federal government takeover core is still in any so called reform bills – Individual Mandates, subsidies/taxes, and regulation….
Where does the HC power grab really stand?
I see it this way - we are in MORE danger then ever now. The left will push thru all the rest minus a government medical welfare entitlement plan and sold as “moderate compromise” because so many will be relieved to just see the government option go and not realzing that all the rest of Obamacare will destroy private HC and Health Insurnace…..as promised in 5-10 years…and so will go our econonmy, our politics will forever be statist dominated, and our individual liberties will be NO more!
We need to send the statists a message in upcoming elections but need to continue to call, fax, and email Congress as much as ever on HC!