Buh Bye Liberal Health Care Plan?

It's far too early for me to take much comfort in believing we're going to be spared a liberal debacle when it comes to health care reform. But, there's always hope! And this Politico item offers just that.

Bipartisan negotiations on the Senate Finance Committee are moving closer to eliminating two health care provisions favored by many Democrats – a mandate on employers to provide insurance or pay a penalty, and a government insurance option, a senator and health care insiders said Monday.

This is precisely what I was saying in that Tea Party post just down below. The media can spin all they want. Obama can lie through his teeth. But today, especially with new media including blogs and talk radio, it's increasingly difficult for the elites to sell trash to the people dressed up as Christmas presents.

Obama needed to rush this all through, so people didn't have a chance to clue in. That didn't happen. And we have Republicans and also Blue Dog Dems to some degree, to thank for that. Plus, these guys don't really want to commit electoral suicide in 2010. They may already be feeling on the hook enough over the stimulus and it's flat impact on the economy, while exploding the debt.

We need to keep fighting. But never suffer the illusion that we can't win. Just keep plugging away and let your voices be heard. They matter, each and every one, to the politicians who eventually have to answer to us, whether they like it, or not.

Comments

[Ran]

I've found this useful: Peter Ferrara's TAS article What Conservatives Must Now Do

http://spectator.org/archives/2008/12/31/what-conservatives-must-now-do

It's a call to local action: The local PTA, your local Republican or Democrat Party offices, running for office, supporting Conservative and Libertarian candidates running in one of the two main parties...

Talking to your neighbors. Organizing one's community. This goes far beyond "health care reform", it is about re-establishing our G-D Given Rights protected under the Constitution.

Heh. They told us that if we voted for McCain, we'd get more Gitmo and more wiretaps and more TARP and an expanded fascist-styled alliance of Wall-Street finance, big business and big government trying to control every aspect of our lives! Oh how right they were.

[smitty]

Concur. I look forward to 12Sep09 as a turning point. http://912dc.org

[Mark Turner]

The Obama administration is like the Carter years and the first two years of Clinton's first term, rolled into one quivering mass of brainless hyperactive protoplasm. It's no surprise to me that the Dems have had only 1 two-term presidency since Truman.

I feel vindicated about my opinions about Obama prior to the election -- I knew he was going to be bad news -- and unfortunately, I was right.

[mark l.]

"Dems have had only 1 two-term presidency since Truman"

that is a tasty nugget of info.

[Reaganite Republican]

Barack Obama will never say to your face what he actually plans to do -or achieve- with these huge new government programs. Everything's rolled-out in a trojan horse, and you're not allowed to look inside or ask any questions. Suffice to say, good-faith disclosure is not how this crew operates.

Rather, you get "soaring rhetoric" with styrofoam props to wow the plebes, like the tacky greek columns in Denver. To him, the revolutionary ends justify the Alinskyite means- so the Dear Leader just tells you whatever he needs to.

And the truth is that Obama is out to nationalize health care.. they'll be no private insurance industry left after five years of Obamacare- but of course he's lying about it. And this bill is a P-I-G pig... small wonder then that anyone with a brain that is facing an election next year is running for the hills on this one.

As for the American public, the reality that Obama is not up to the job seems to finally be setting-in; the poll numbers are now headed steadily south- is he already facing his Waterloo on this legislation?

Looks like it from where I'm standing... and it would do the country a lot of good to have this arrogant montebank knocked-down a peg or two at this point, because Obama/Pelosi/Reid are completely out-of-control.

[Xerocky]

The funny thing is, besides health care, what do Democrats do? This is their thing, ok...show us what you've got, you keep yammering about it, now is your time. And what does he show us? Confusion? Lies?

It's kind of sad.

[Larry Schliessmann]

And hello to 70,000 a year more American deaths due to a lack of affordable healthcare, 300,000 plus bankruptcies a year, and skyrocketing costs for the rest of us. In the next 2 weeks, 140,000 people will lose their health insurance. This is what a public option would prevent.

[Norris Hall]

The problem with health care in America is that it has become a commodity or a product like a car a boat.
But unlike a car or a boat, if you have appendicitis you can't just say "I don't have the money to have my appendix removed, so I'll just wait till I can afford it"
Add to that mix insurance companies, doctors and hospitals whose main concern is making as much money as they can....and you have the recipe for the health care disaster this country faces today...where millions have to choose between paying the rent or paying for life saving medications and where we spend twice as much for health care per person than Japan, Germany, Canada, Norway, Singapore, Korea, France, England, etc.

Conservatives would like everyone to believe that they are morally superior because they believe in the right to life.
But when that baby, born to an illegal alien, needs health care to stay alive they don't want to have anything to do with it. "Let her pay for it, or let the baby die" is their attitude.

[buy soma]

We can all benefit from our current health care system if we can afford it but in real life it is not a Health Care System but a Wealth Care System.