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In reply to the discussion: Elimination of ‘Public Option’ Threw Consumers to the Insurance Wolves [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)28. and then they wagged their fingers and told us that supporting third parties was what got
Republicans in
they tell us to go to the primaries, but they torpedo them when the money-party candidates are about to lose
remember how the leaders expressed RELIEF after Scott Brown won? the supermajority was over and now the pressure to pass bills was off
it's a sweatshop model for the party: they get the same corporate contributions even if they lose: if they lose they get to blame the American people for their own condition; if they win, they work with the GOP they threaten us with and pass crippling policies that they threaten us with, and ask us what are we gonna do about it
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Elimination of ‘Public Option’ Threw Consumers to the Insurance Wolves [View all]
RiverLover
Feb 2015
OP
Yes, we have to pay. Insurance companies sustain no losses in real life situations like the free
DhhD
Feb 2015
#69
How corporate Democrates colluded with Republicans to trash the public option:
woo me with science
Feb 2015
#95
I think that may be one of the reasons why it works for so many of us here in MN. We had already
jwirr
Feb 2015
#4
and then they wagged their fingers and told us that supporting third parties was what got
MisterP
Feb 2015
#28
I remember the standing ovation and the Committee Chairs he received from the Party
sabrina 1
Feb 2015
#79
because organized labor is doing so well because of that history; it's dead, jim
ND-Dem
Feb 2015
#50
If he were a friend of labor, he would not have stood in the way of a public option.
merrily
Feb 2015
#77
Even with the single payer option, it was never healthcare reform, just health insurance reform.
Amimnoch
Feb 2015
#15
"Anything else is double-dipping the middle class and a free handout to the insurance industry."
Amimnoch
Feb 2015
#96
What happened is the growing influence of Citizens United and a massive voter suppression effort.
Enthusiast
Feb 2015
#57
Lieberman was never going to let a public option through the Senate. That slimebag even
geek tragedy
Feb 2015
#27
If they know the Dems are going to coopt their ideas out of fear, then they will keep pushing their
cui bono
Feb 2015
#48
The ACA could be more accurately described as the Single Payer Prevention Act.
Enthusiast
Feb 2015
#58
Why, of course it did! And the Public Option would've been sabotaged anyhow
RufusTFirefly
Feb 2015
#38
A health care plan that include a robust Public Option had no need for a private insurance industry.
Enthusiast
Feb 2015
#51
19 million covered, according to Mother Jones. You think they should walk away from the ACA?
Hekate
Feb 2015
#88
Wasn't the public option the compromise with those of us who want single payer?
hootinholler
Feb 2015
#97