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John Shadegg Slips and Says He Would Support Single Payer Health Care
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19.3.2010 |
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Oops. Republican John Shadegg appeared on MSNBC just after Dennis Kucinich made his statement saying that he was going to vote for the health care bill . While arguing against the mandate to buy insurance Shadegg let's one slip and basically made the argument for having single payer health insurance. As The Hill noted, he quickly switched gears. Shadegg (R): 'I would support single payer' over individual mandate :
Shadegg blasted the for-profit health insurance industry during an appearance on MSNBC today, finally declaring, "I would support single payer."
He quickly clarified his comment, saying he would simply like to see health insurance companies have more competition.
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Kucinich Goes All In, Pushes Other Lawmakers to Support Health Bill
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19.3.2010 |
AlterNet |
| This is amazing: A few hours after Rep. Dennis Kucinich switched his support to become a critical vote for the health care bill, he took to the House floor to ask wavering colleagues to join him. Astonished colleagues pointed to Kucinich (D-OH) darting from member to member on the House floor yesterday, saying privately they’d never seen [...] ... |
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Midday open thread
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19.3.2010 |
Daily Kos |
| Who took the old Kucinich and replaced him with this pragmatic one ? I like this new look much better.
Retiring Rep. John Shaddeg, among the most conservative Republicans in the House, now says he would support single-payer health care .
Weird.
Think about the scope of the task -- Democrats were told they needed a health care reform bill that spends a lot of money on covering the uninsured, lowers the deficit, strengthens Medicare, helps businesses, eases government budgets, protects consumers, and controls costs, all at the same time. It would also need to earn the blessing of Congressional Budget Office, the American Medical Association, the AARP, and the nation's largest labor unions.
Democrats were also told they needed to do ... |
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Zero Public Option + One Mandate = Disaster
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18.3.2010 |
Truthout - All Articles |
| Not long ago, the most prominent supporters of the public option were touting it as essential for health care reform. Now, suddenly, it's incidental.
In fact, many who were lauding a public option as the key to a better health care future are now condemning just about anyone who insists that the absence of a public option makes the current bill unworthy of support.
Consider this statement: "If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current healthcare bill. Any measure that expands private insurers' monopoly over healthcare and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real healthcare reform."
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Everybody Knows The Deal Is Rotten
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18.3.2010 |
Commondreams.org Views |
| by Christopher Cooper I
don't want to
do this. I shouldn't have to do
this.
But the burden is well-settled upon me; the letters and telephone calls
and
E-mail messages from the several hundred mostly strangers who have given
numerous of my previous essays their praise and who have told me that I
must
continue to write when I am as troubled as I now find myself-these
persons
deserve what small insight or comfort or advice I can generate for them.
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that I could summon for them, for us all, some reason to hope. read more |
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Progressives Should Not Follow Kucinich on Health Care
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18.3.2010 |
Commondreams.org Views |
| by Matthew Rothschild I don't blame Dennis Kucinich for changing his mind and deciding to
vote for Obama's health care reform bill.
The bill does have its merits: It greatly expands Medicaid coverage,
it increases funding for community health centers, and it subsidizes
people who don't have a lot of money to buy health care insurance. And
depending on the fine print, the bill may end discrimination against
people with preexisting conditions. read more |
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Zero Public Option + One Mandate = Disaster
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18.3.2010 |
Common Dreams: Headlines |
| by Norman Solomon Not long ago, the most prominent supporters of the public option were
touting it as essential for healthcare reform. Now, suddenly, it's
incidental. In fact, many who were lauding a public option as the
key to a
better healthcare future are now condemning just about anyone who
insists that the absence of a public option makes the current bill
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A Moderate’s View Of Health Care Reform
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18.3.2010 |
The Moderate Voice |
| One of the fun things about being a political moderate is that you can be sure no matter what you say the odds are you’ll tick off people on both sides of the political fence. I am quite sure that this will be true as I offer some of my own thoughts on what sort [...] |
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Would You Believe a Public Option?
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18.3.2010 |
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| Earlier today, MSNBC's David Shuster seemed to get Rep. John Shadegg, a very conservative congressman from Arizona, to say that he'd support a "single payer" health care system .
Our Rachel Slajda followed up with the congressman's office to see what was up. And his office just responded ...
Congressman Shadegg believes health insurance companies should have to compete for our business as individual consumers. Forcing them to compete, even through a public option, would be better than an individual mandate which will not work. ... |
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Kucinich - Then and Now
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17.3.2010 |
Red State |
| Remember Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) in 2009 who opposed the House version of ObamaCare containing a public option, because the House bill “put the government in the role of accelerating the privatization of health care.” He argued that ObamaCare solution is ”within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care.” Well, that same Congressman Kucinich has changed and now supports a bill without an explicit public option. Today Congressn Kucinich announced that he will vote for a bill without a public option. Dennis Kucinich has shifted from principled leftist to run of the mill Democrat hack.
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Why I'm Voting 'Yes'
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17.3.2010 |
Commondreams.org Views |
| by Dennis Kucinich The following are the prepared remarks offered by US Rep. Kucinich today regarding his plans for the upcoming health care vote:
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Kucinich will vote for health care bill, says he’s bothered by ‘the attempt to de-legitimatize Obama’s presidency.’
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17.3.2010 |
Think Progres |
| In recent weeks, it has become clear that the vote in the House of Representatives for the Senate’s health care bill will be very close. The lone progressive holdout on the bill had been Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who had previously announced his intention to vote against the bill because it lacks both a strong [...] |
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Moore: Uninsured Dying Because They 'Hold American Instead of Canadian Passport'
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16.3.2010 |
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| Moore predicted the Democrats' ObamaCare will pass, "But this bill, as good as many of the thing are in the bill, you know - young people can stay on their parent's insurance until 26, that's a great thing - it's a death sentence for literally tens of thousands of people who are going to get sick, or have been sick, and because of their preexisting conditions."
To Moore, the current health care reform proposal does not go nearly far enough. He favors a universal single-payer system that would effectively be a government take-over of one-sixth the economy.
" Their only crime - for dying - their only crime that they would have committed was they were a citizen in the United States of America ," Moore said of the uninsured. "If they were a ... |
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Fight for single-payer healthcare will continue after bill passes, senator says
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16.3.2010 |
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| One of the most trusted progressive voices in the senate said Monday evening the effort to improve health care in America will not be over once the Democratic bill passes. In fact, he declared, it's just the beginning.
"I believe that at the end of the day, what we need is a Medicare-for-all, single payer system," [...] |
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The Contradictions of Reform Opponents
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16.3.2010 |
The Atlantic - Matthew Ygblesias |
| Rachel Slajda brings us Rep Mike McIntyre (D-NC)’s stated explanation for opposing the health reform bill: “Health care reform is needed, but the bill before us is too expensive, does not adequately address rising medical costs and skyrocketing insurance premiums, and tries to do too much too soon.”
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Joe Scarborough endorses repealing parts of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
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16.3.2010 |
Think Progres |
| Today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, during a discussion on the health care bill currently being considered in Congress, host Joe Scarborough accused progressive contributor Lawrence O’Donnell of being an “avowed socialist, a eurosocialist.” O’Donnell sardonically reminded Scaborough that there is “not a single Republican socialist in the Congress who wants to repeal one sentence of [...] |
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'Bipartisan Reform Was Achievable'
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16.3.2010 |
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| The former top health care aide to Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) makes some cogent points in an op-ed that is must reading in today's New York Times . William F. Pewen notes:
Many of the reforms contained in the Democratic bill were originally Republican ideas. For instance, in 2003 the Republican-led Congress enacted legislation calling for end-of-life counseling -- the "death panels" duplicitiously attacked in Republican Town Hall meetings last summer;
The Democrats missed a golden opportunity to create a fallback public plan option, which was offered by Sen. Snowe during the "Gang of Six" negotiations;
It was a Democratic deal with the pharmaceutical industry that led to the rejection of a plan to allow imported drugs, which could have ... |
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Pelosi Under Pressure From Progressives on Public Option
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16.3.2010 |
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists that the public option is dead, but progressive organizations are mounting an aggressive campaign to resurrect it as Democratic lawmakers gear up to pass a final health care bill this week via a budgetary process known as reconciliation.
Democracy for America, Credo Action, and the Progressive Campaign Change Committee (PCCC) raised $75,000 for a 60-second spot that will air on MSNBC, CNN and a local station in Pelosi's home district of San Francisco.
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Obama calls for action on healthcare: 'We need courage'
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16.3.2010 |
LA Times: Top News |
| Obama calls for action on healthcare: 'We need courage' |
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The Crack Cocaine That Is The Nanny State
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14.3.2010 |
Red State |
| Karl Marx famously stated that religion was the “opiate of the masses”. But Marx (unsurprisingly) had it wrong: the government nanny state is the real opiate of the masses. It is injected into our lives by the Leftist drug pushers who wish to control us, hook us on their DC-manufactured “progressivism”, and depend upon them for all of our needs. They know that once we’re hooked, we like it. We may not want to like it, because we know it’s really wrong to have such a dependency upon government. But we can’t help ourselves. There’s all that free stuff, just waiting for us to swallow it and make us feel good.
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