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Obama Will Consider "Compromise" --No Thanks
Now we hear that the president will consider a compromise on healthcare and health insurance.Well, NO THANKS. THAT IS NOT WHAT I VOTED FOR. Mr. President, you and your family don't need to "compromise" on your health insurance. How about the rest of us? What a joke --but it's on the people who supported you, fought for you and gave you hard earned dollars.
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/grassleys-government-health-insurance-hundreds-of-dollars-a-month-cheaper-than-average-health-insura.php#comment-3507353
If we could all pay $356 a month for family coverage as Grassley does, we wouldn't have a problem to solve!
June 24, 2009 2:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Glad to see you ringing in Kali!
Of course, compromise isn't really the right term in this case at this time. It really should be "compromise even more than he already has." The President foolishly took single payer off the table before the discussion got under way choosing to immediately retreat to a "public option" and got nothing for it in return. Now the whores and parasites of Washington are demanding capitulation, not compromise. In the end though, you're right. He isn't compromising on the health care he or his family will receive. He'll just compromise on what we all get. Nice work.
June 24, 2009 6:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know, it's funny, but now it seems so obvious why Hillary Clinton was right.
June 24, 2009 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
How so?
June 24, 2009 10:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've posted elsewhere, but here it is again. The difference between Single payer and anything else. One is healthcare for those who can afford it and the other is healthcare for those who need it. I want to be a patient, not a customer.
June 24, 2009 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hear! Hear!
June 24, 2009 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where Obama went wrong, IMO, was in not beginning the healthcare reform negotiating from a position in favor of single-payer. Had he done that, a public option could have been seen by the insurance industry as the preferred alternative. Instead, by his having opened this negotiation with the public option, Obama has left himself no place to negotiate to but down.
I suspect that Obama played his hand that way because he believed that reasonable minds would see how reasonable a public option was, and therefore, would support it. The obvious flaw in that approach is that it assumes some reasonable minds exist on the other side. Unanimous GOP opposition to the Stimulus was early proof to the contrary.
Obama needs to stop trying so hard to appear reasonable to conservatives, whether those be Republicans or Democrats. He has to put aside the vanity of appearing so reasonable and realize that when negotiating with them he will always get pulled down from his opening position. That's just a basic negotiating tactic. I'm sure that Rahm accepts this principle, and he has to get Obama to accept it in time for the coming energy, education, and other coming legislative battles.
June 25, 2009 9:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
I am putting this on every insurance-related blog; don't want anyone to miss it:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/moveons-feinstein-ad-news-flash-senator-we-dont-expect-you-to-lead-just-on-the-easy-issues.php#comment-3508421
June 25, 2009 10:37 AM | Reply | Permalink