Caught on Hannity while zooming through traffic before I could switch stations in disgust: a woman, self-professed god-fearing ordinary mom tells Sean how frightened she is if Health Insurance Reform goes through, citing random (obviously planted) statistics on how many jobs will be destroyed by Obama-care.
She’s earnest, folksy, even compelling in her worry about pushing [...]
This quote from Maddow (via, Rachel was on MTP) is not going to win her lots of allies at the White House:
But ultimately, if the president decides that he’s going to go with a reform effort that doesn’t include a public option, what he will have done is spent a ton of political capital, riled [...]
This is just getting weird.
Roger Fakes, 70, said he sat quitely during most of the meeting, but Cohen’s insistence that citizens would be able to keep their private health care drove him to his feet.
He argued that changes to private insurance would force citizens into the government plan.
‘There are some of us old gray-haired folks [...]
Digby points us to the Village marching orders given by “Village Magus” Charlie Cook:
While the Obama White House has always said compromise would be necessary, the cold realities of the state of the economy, budgets and deficits, and, for members of Congress, re-election are going to force a significant scaling down of the health and [...]
Obama frames the debate on the public option for health care.
Do we want insurance or medical treatment for what ails us? Insurance is only a means to an end. Health care is what we want.
As the debacle of AIG, the world’s largest insurance company (until last fall), so graphically illustrated — insurance companies are big evil blood-sucking vampires.
No, really. I’m sure I saw that somewhere. [...]
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