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Just saw Queen Pelosi talk about the public option as though she is conceding that it will not be in the house bill (duh) but then she goes on to say that "when they are done with the insurance companies they will be begging for the public option instead" or words very close to that.
I certainly believe her.
As discussed, the socialists dont really need to do anything other than make health care a federal responsibility which they have done. After that they can just hammer at anything whether it is health care, or the oil industry, or the financial industry until it is so highly regulated that the line between the private sector and the public sector is not visible to the human eye.
Of course, the democrats are down a quart in strength since this thing was set in motion. Take em down a couple more quarts and Pelosi will not get everything she wants. Most of it, but not everything.
There is only so much that can be accomplished on each side. The conservatives beat back single payer, they beat back public option, they beat back co-ops, etc. But you cant elect a bunch of commies and expect it to not show up somewhere.
Ahhh.....but then there are the consitutional challenges shaping up.
Good to open up another front in the war. Premiums are already going to go through the roof just based on GI but if you can't get mandate along with it they are up into the stratosphere.
The country is going to tank. The Canadians have very high health care costs in charted waters but we are about to have explosive costs in uncharted waters. Man, that is ugly.
What a frigging mess. I am telling ya. We are going to end out worse off than if they had never "improved" it and I am in favor of improving it but not the commie way. What a mess. A sixth of the economy about to be nuked by people who hate the private sector and are already running medicare and medicaid into the ground.
I certainly believe her.
As discussed, the socialists dont really need to do anything other than make health care a federal responsibility which they have done. After that they can just hammer at anything whether it is health care, or the oil industry, or the financial industry until it is so highly regulated that the line between the private sector and the public sector is not visible to the human eye.
Of course, the democrats are down a quart in strength since this thing was set in motion. Take em down a couple more quarts and Pelosi will not get everything she wants. Most of it, but not everything.
There is only so much that can be accomplished on each side. The conservatives beat back single payer, they beat back public option, they beat back co-ops, etc. But you cant elect a bunch of commies and expect it to not show up somewhere.
Ahhh.....but then there are the consitutional challenges shaping up.
Good to open up another front in the war. Premiums are already going to go through the roof just based on GI but if you can't get mandate along with it they are up into the stratosphere.
The country is going to tank. The Canadians have very high health care costs in charted waters but we are about to have explosive costs in uncharted waters. Man, that is ugly.
What a frigging mess. I am telling ya. We are going to end out worse off than if they had never "improved" it and I am in favor of improving it but not the commie way. What a mess. A sixth of the economy about to be nuked by people who hate the private sector and are already running medicare and medicaid into the ground.
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