The Catch Up On Many Things Thread For 10/28/09:

Busy with many things today outside of TWD everyone, so sorry for the delay. But here's the runthrough:

Public Option Health Care News

While most were focusing on the LIE-bera--hole show yesterday with the Senate, the bigger story probably was in the House. A robust public option, something Nancy Pelosi said was going to happen in her chamber, is in serious danger actually.

The negotiation rates need to keep premiums at 10-11% in comparison to typical private insurers being truly strong instead of the negotiated rates that the Blue Dog/conservative nutcases want. Without that, the public option, though still a public option at day's end, is not as strong as it should be.

And, as Jon Walker said in that link, it IS A Slap in the face to the working class.

That would be around a $1,400 reduction in premiums for the average family that could choose the robust public option. Forcing Americans to pay roughly $1,400 more a year on health insurance premiums, by denying them the choice of a robust public option, is the first slap in the face.

Ryan Grim adds further

The public option tied to Medicare rates saves $110 billion over ten years. Requiring it to negotiate rates only saves $25 billion.

If leadership goes with the negotiated-rate plan, that $85 billion difference will have to come from somewhere to meet President Obama’s ten-year, $900 billion price ceiling. The fattest target is the subsidies to help people afford insurance.

And you see how crucial it is to have EVERYTHING with a public option.

Again, it needs to be said: How can you show to people that government CAN work effectively for the lives' of its citizens when you under government's ability to do just that?

It's foolhardy thinking that hurts the entire nation collectively, and demoralizes those who knew the answer was so simple and right there, yet so far away.



Possibly the worst candidate of this entire election all year.

Remember to all, Evan Bayh is just as much of an A--hole as the LIE guy:

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Oh, and Harry Reid looks like he won't even thinking of reconciliation.......Better crack that whip then Harry Reid.

And Chris Dood is once again defending LIE-bera--hole.

Outside of Public Option News
They don't make the Republicans in South Carolina like they do anywhere else.

People don't talk about them being hacks like Hackio, but The Hill is certainly in that boat.

John Kerry is not a happy man at all about being misled the outrageous report about the CIA directly funding Ahmed Karzai......at all.

And lesson to this nugget that "the amnesia queen" dropped today.....She didn't have a case of amnesia this time.

More to come.