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No. 2 Senate Democrat 'Open' to Health Care Bill With No Public Option
FOX | 08/09/09 | FOXNEWS

Posted on 08/09/2009 3:36:21 PM PDT by Doogle

The so-called public option is a hot topic of debate at town hall meetings across the country. Supporters say it's needed to keep private insurance companies in check and extend affordable coverage to all. Critics warn that the government should not have so much control over health care and that a public option could eventually eliminate private insurance.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; durbin; publicoption; yeahright
..remember two boxers in the ring and one say's to the other, "hey, your shoe lace is untied"... Don't look down people
1 posted on 08/09/2009 3:36:21 PM PDT by Doogle
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To: Doogle

Doesn’t this mean he is “un-american”?

They’ll start eating each other, just watch.


2 posted on 08/09/2009 3:37:57 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: Williams
....guess the “mob” is having it's effect. They ain't seen nothing yet.
3 posted on 08/09/2009 3:41:18 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

A like to the story?


4 posted on 08/09/2009 3:42:22 PM PDT by Military family member (GO Colts!!)
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To: Doogle

Hmmm... Maybe this is just a problem that need several months and decent people to determine the best approach. It certainty is NOT a time to pass bills (unread) and try to figure it all out later...

Unfortunately, our wonderful Representatives (both parties) like to pass legislation first and figure it out later. No reason to determine the effects until after the next election ya know...

I long for the time that working representatives went to Congress (with first hand knowledge of the world) and pass laws that they actually agreed with and obeyed themselves. Those were the days...


5 posted on 08/09/2009 3:42:32 PM PDT by Deagle
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To: Doogle
Don't trust them. They'll regulate it to the point where everyone's miserable and it'll still lead to a public option.

The Mafia in the White House will not rest until it wins but to do that it has to calm dissent.

6 posted on 08/09/2009 3:43:13 PM PDT by TheThinker
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To: Military family member

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/09/senate-democrat-open-health-care-public-option/


7 posted on 08/09/2009 3:44:13 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle
When he gets back to D.C. everything he has said while home in his district will be “OPEN” to interpretation!
8 posted on 08/09/2009 3:44:23 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Deagle
I long for the time that working representatives went to Congress (with first hand knowledge of the world) and pass laws that they actually agreed with and obeyed themselves. Those were the days...

How long has it been since we haven't had an oligarchy? I don't know but I bet it was before the 60's.

9 posted on 08/09/2009 3:45:12 PM PDT by TheThinker
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To: Doogle

Who is the #2 Senate democrat? What is the key statement here?


10 posted on 08/09/2009 3:46:09 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Deagle

deagle?..any relation to the doggles out of docklesville?

Doogle

*grins*


11 posted on 08/09/2009 3:47:51 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

“No. 2 Senate Democrat ‘Open’ to Health Care Bill With No Public Option”

We need to be on the lookout for incrementalism!! If they can’t shove it down our throats all at once, they’ll look to do it piecemeal!! The federal government should stay the hell out of healthcare.

Let the voters of each state decide on their own proposals. None of us is wise enough to know what the right solution is a priori. The states can serve as evolving laboratories of the various ideas. It will be much easier to then undo those that don’t work. If we pass this mostrosity at the federal level it will be next to impossible to eliminate later. That’s what they are counting on.


12 posted on 08/09/2009 3:48:17 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Doogle

Kill the bill. Tort reform NOW!!!

If you want to insure the uninsured, then insure them. Give them the money.

Leave our healthcare alone.


13 posted on 08/09/2009 3:48:23 PM PDT by Tarpon (The Joker's plan -- Slavery by debt so large it can never be repaid)
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To: Migraine

Durban.....it’s just smoke and mirrors


14 posted on 08/09/2009 3:50:06 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

What the Dems are now doing is setting the stage for “Obamacare Light.” Obamacare Light will not fix healthcare. It will only sabotage the current healthcare
system more than they already have sabotaged it, and that will set the stage for a complete nationalization in the next Congress, as the Dems argue more persuasively that the system is broken. They will be right, of course, but what will be omitted is that they are to blame.


15 posted on 08/09/2009 3:50:29 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: aquila48
Obama state media Trial balloon alert of the day !
16 posted on 08/09/2009 3:50:42 PM PDT by ncalburt (Read all about)
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To: Doogle
"I support a public option, but, yes, I am open."

And so is the Grand Canyon. Senator Durbin ought to drop in.

17 posted on 08/09/2009 3:51:21 PM PDT by justkate
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To: Doogle

Here is the kicker from the article.

“He said that assuming the Senate passes a bill, there will be another opportunity to revise it in the conference committee, where the House and Senate would try to smooth out the differences between their bills.”

It’s a trick. Pubbies better not fall for this.  


18 posted on 08/09/2009 3:52:15 PM PDT by 50mm (AARP is a steaming pile)
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To: Doogle

Heh, sorry... It’s a golf thing...Double Eagle - still trying but unrealistic at my age.


19 posted on 08/09/2009 3:52:53 PM PDT by Deagle
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To: Doogle

They need to end any discussion of what is proposed and start from scratch.


20 posted on 08/09/2009 3:53:28 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! FairTaxNation.com)
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To: Deagle

eyeah...ah...ah...mine has nothing to do with oogling


21 posted on 08/09/2009 3:54:17 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: TheThinker

Actually, probably before my voting age...but had much higher hopes back then. If I were more honest, I would say the 50’s were the last time that happened...


22 posted on 08/09/2009 3:54:53 PM PDT by Deagle
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To: ncalburt

It will make the Obamabot’s heads explode. That is the core of what they want.


23 posted on 08/09/2009 3:56:35 PM PDT by listenhillary (90% of our problems could be resolved with a government 10% of the size it is now.)
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To: Doogle

HEH... That was a good comeback...heh.


24 posted on 08/09/2009 3:57:30 PM PDT by Deagle
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To: Man50D
start from scratch

..ok...no health care for illegals...tort reform....and end the fraud they know about and do nothing about..

25 posted on 08/09/2009 3:57:59 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

WE DON’T WANT ANY HELL CARE BILL AT ALL.....SCUMBAGS. The DEMONRATS won’t pass anything to foster FREE MARKET health care ideas. SO TO HELL WITH ALL OF THEM. THEY HAVE DECLARED WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.


26 posted on 08/09/2009 3:59:54 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: Doogle

He just wants the “mobs” to stop bothering all the poor little socialists, hem, democrats from bothering them while they’re on vacation.


27 posted on 08/09/2009 4:13:30 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Tarpon
You have hit the nail on the head. The one major player who is not sitting at the table. WE NEED TO PUT THE LAWYERS BETWEEN THE FIRE HYDRANT AND THE DOG! Tort reform NOW.
28 posted on 08/09/2009 4:15:08 PM PDT by goodtomato (I'm blessed!)
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To: Doogle

I seriously think this is where “health” reform is going—it was even hinted to me by a Hill intern that HR 3200 “isn’t the bill that’s going to pass” — although it’s the one all the “town halls” are about — there is another bill out there, that the “common folk” aren’t going to get a look at and it will pass the first day Congress is back in session whether we the people like it or not.


29 posted on 08/09/2009 4:16:33 PM PDT by browniexyz
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To: browniexyz

30 posted on 08/09/2009 4:19:16 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Williams

that’s not good enough. even without the public option (co-op), it’s still “obama lite”.

drive a stake in it, cut the head off, burn the body, stick garlic and holy waffers in the mouth, stick the head in a silver box and drop the box into flowing water.


31 posted on 08/09/2009 4:25:11 PM PDT by ak267
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To: Doogle

Perfect Headline:

No. 2 Senate Democrat -— Turdbin


32 posted on 08/09/2009 4:31:16 PM PDT by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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To: Doogle

We want the same health insurance that the vultures in DC have. They want to force mandated insurance down our throats, like Romney’s disaster.


33 posted on 08/09/2009 5:32:29 PM PDT by socialismislost
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To: Doogle

Without denying its smoke and mirrors I have been wondering how far over the cliff the current democrat leadership can take the party before other voices dethrone them from leadership.

Its inevitable at this point.


34 posted on 08/09/2009 8:36:32 PM PDT by lucias_clay (I got feathers whose got tar ?)
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To: lucias_clay
Watch the real Trojan Horse here, no public option, but 90% of the other stuff that will bury the insurance companies in red tape and strangle their profits and in a couple 3 years this crap will be brought up again.
35 posted on 08/10/2009 6:37:13 AM PDT by pburgh01
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