Did Dennis Kucinich side with the insurance companies with his "yes" vote?

[trumad]

His quote:

I voted for this version of the health care bill, and it passed in committee. It was a compromise, but a reasonable one. However, the version of the bill that reached the House floor was considerably watered down. It had a severely weakened public option and the employee-retirement waiver had been stripped. It no longer constituted an incremental step forward that would provide relief to my constituents, so I could not support it. The version of the bill that passed the Senate was even worse.

Absent a strong public option or legal protection for states that wish to pursue single payer, the bill that the president is proposing is a step in the wrong direction. Even with the few modest improvements in the bill, the insurance companies will still have dozens of loopholes to deny care and continue to find ways to leave Americans with the unpayable bill.

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/03/latest_health_care_reform_bill.html

[Tailormyst]

1. Yes

For whatever reason, yes, the ones benefiting most are the billionaire CEOs.

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[pecwae]

3. A 'yes' vote

is a 'yes' vote, so Yes.

[Luciferous]

4. Yes

[DrDan]

5. of course he did

[bigtree]

6. He voted to advance the process of reform

I suppose that he has been promised that the reform effort will not end with the passage of this legislation.

[Tailormyst]

7. I think you are right

[LynneSin]

9. +1

This is not the last time that Healthcare will be debated in congress but I think there are some positive steps with the current form that will have a positive impact on Americans.

We can always come back again with the public option/medicare buy-in

[GreenArrow]

10. He may have voted on that,

but the result is still going to be the further entrenchment of the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, to their benefit, and our detriment.

We are, quite simply, a backwards ass country.

[mmonk]

8. No.

Show some class in your victory.

[trumad]

11. No? So he voted no not yes?

Just a week ago he said a yes vote enriched the insurance companies....

Did he not?

[ixion]

12. Yep. Very sad.

:(