Dems reach deal to drop gov't-run plan

[DEDixon 39]

[Dan J 277]

What will probably replace it is an expansion of medicare, which is better anyway. Why create a new program when we already have one.

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

What will probably replace it is an expansion of medicare, which is better anyway. Why create a new program when we already have one.

folks we have a winner!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

What will probably replace it is an expansion of medicare, which is better anyway. Why create a new program when we already have one.

Yeah for a subset of the 55-65 population. That's incrementalism we can believe in.

[mawilson 2,133]

That's incrementalism we can believe in.

[NickD 203]

Which plan in that? Heard a couple experts this morning talking about cap and trade, one guy said it would be political suicide for the dems to pass that with our poor economic condition that would result in even more energy price increases. He didn't say even more, I added that, just higher energy prices.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Funny how the opposition to the public option - the path to a single payer system in their minds - has no problem supporting the - albeit gradual - expansion of Medicare; an actual single payer system.

[mawilson 2,133]

Funny how the opposition to the public option - the path to a single payer system in their minds - has no problem supporting the - albeit gradual - expansion of Medicare; an actual single payer system.

[HAL 9000 96]

Funny how the opposition to the public option - the path to a single payer system in their minds - has no problem supporting the - albeit gradual - expansion of Medicare; an actual single payer system.

Give them time. Eventually they'll kick and scream about this as well and add it to their obstructionist top-ten tax lists that don't exist.

(All the while they could offer up viable alternative legislation)

[DEDixon 39]

WASHINGTON – The liberals' longtime dream of a government-run health care system for all died Wednesday in the Senate, but Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont vowed it will return when the realization dawns that private insurance companies "are no longer needed."

The proposal's demise came as Senate Democratic leaders and the White House sought agreement with Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., to become the 60th supporter of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul — the number needed to overcome a Republican filibuster.

Nelson has met three times in the past nine days with Obama. While he is seeking stricter curbs on abortions in the insurance system the bill would establish, he also has raised issues in his home state that are unrelated .... blah blah blah

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Edited December 17, 2009 by DEDixon