Countdown: Wendell Potter on Public Option - 'We Began With Compromise'

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MSNBC Countdown w/ Lawrence O'Donnell - 30 Oct. 2009: Health Insurance Whistleblower Wendall Potter Interviewed.

POTTER: "I sympathize with the Congressman (Kucinich). He has been a champion of consumers, of Americans, and not for the insurance industry. What I think has happened, I think, to a large extent, is the administration and leaders in Congress began with a bill that was largely a compromise already, rather than starting with Medicare for all... So we wound up with a bill that is not as good as a lot of progressives thought it should be. So, it's a pretty good bill, but is as good as we could do? No, it's not."

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1. Poll shows Lieberman's constituents overwhelmingly support a public option

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2. So Joe is just doing it to protect priv ins cause he's been bribed to.

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3. Priv. Ins. are celebrating this PO deal cause they get millions more clients &

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4. & huge government subsidies while only very few can get PO and they only gave up pre-existing cond.

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5. This is the democracy we are "allowed" to have by priv ins industry

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6. Plus without being tied to Medicare rates, PO will have higher premiums

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7. The public wants it but our elected officials won't give it to us.You can't have it

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8. A corporatocracy with its army of Lobbyists holding the strings of their bribed puppets who say no

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9. Democracy you can believe in.Obama couldn't get the trigger so Joe says no for him on PO