Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: St. Louis Conservative

We will see. I think the left will almost certainly go with anything that Obama wants them to. They may scream but even if they can a very weak government option they would have a victory.


4 posted on 07/29/2009 6:53:05 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Why are those who claim to have open minds so afraid of open debate?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]


To: Maelstorm

A weak public option will be a failure.

A public option that doesn’t have Medicare price controls will not have a palatable price tag, and if it can’t coerce doctors to participate, then no one will, and the provider network within the public option with be dogsh!t and will collapse.

Only a strong public option, fully funded and backed by the US treasury (not premiums), and one that can control prices and coerce doctor participation has a chance of survival. I’m pretty sure all those things are deal breakers for everyone outside the progressive caucus.


10 posted on 07/29/2009 6:57:17 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: Maelstorm
...even if they can a very weak government option they would have a victory...

Exactly. A weak government bureaucracy can be easily expanded by statists into a tyrannical. It only needs to be codified into law. That is why they must not succeed. Period.
14 posted on 07/29/2009 7:02:50 PM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson