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Originally Posted by TripleXPrint
I was actually starting to feel better based on the responses from our friends up North. Now I want the Canadian system. 
I wish they would just put it all out on the table and say, here, here is the health care bill. Read it, dissect it, and then make a decision on what's best for you or your family. All this obstruction and blacked out media coverage is the worst thing ever. I like to always know what's going on and in this case, I have the foggiest clue. |
The US news keeps throwing around words like "socialist" and "Canadian style" and "death panels" like they're informing the public, but they're just scaring them. It's nearly impossible to get to the facts with regular coverage.
There was a good article about the progress just yesterday:
http://www.alternet.org/news/145891/...th-care_reform
"Whither the Public Option?
Reconciliation would appear to give the public health insurance option a new lease on life. The House bill has a public option, but the Senate bill doesn’t. The public option was traded away on the Senate side to forge the original filibuster-proof majority. As a procedural matter, the public option could easily be reinserted during reconciliation because it has such a direct impact on the federal budget, i.e., it would save the taxpayer a lot of money. The White House claims to support a public option. Yet Obama didn’t propose one in his health care plan last week.
Some observers take that as a sign that the White House doesn’t think the votes are there. (Cynics say it’s proof the White House never cared about the public option in the first place.) Even Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, told radio host Ed Schultz that he can’t support a public option for fear of killing the health care bill, according to Jason Hancock of the Iowa Independent. Harkin has been taking a lot of heat from progressives for refusing to join with other senators in signing a letter calling for a public option."