[phormer phrog phlyer]

I thought trigger was in Roy Rogers museum in California

[cardinal4]

The latest political gimmick is the notion of a "trigger" for the public option: A new government program for the middle class would only come on line if private insurance companies fail to meet certain benchmarks, such as lowering overall health spending or shrinking the number of the uninsured. This is supposed to appeal to Maine Republican Olympia Snowe, who could end up as ObamaCare's 60th Senator, while still appeasing the single-payer left.

It's the same f****** thing! Just a little delayed..!

[darkwing104]

No matter how they rephrase the dogma it's still the same old con...The ends will still justify the means.

[LonePalm]

If there is a trigger to implement a 'public option,' there HAS to be a plug to automatically sunset the law if costs ever exceed estimates.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Jamais reculez á tyrannie un pouce!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! Never give an inch to tyranny!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[socialismisinsidious]

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[Gothmog]

Sounds to me like the “trigger” is a version of WH COS Rahm Emanuel’s plan to force nationalized healthcare. As reported by The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder on CBS News’ web site June 12, 2009:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/12/politics/onthemarc/main5083352.shtml

“White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has floated the idea of a public plan that would be weak for a while — perhaps five years — and give the insurance industry the chance to cut costs, improve the quality of care and increase access (there would be metrics). And then, if the private sector failed, the public plan would suddenly be placed before the American people as an alternative to their current plan — and it would be heavily subsidized, would cost less, and would cover more things.”

You can be sure the WH and dems will set up the “Trigger” plan to fail.

[loveliberty2]

We must remember that words are just the vehicles that carry ideas.

If a person is intent on taking his cargo from Point A to Point B, and finds there are such obstacles to traveling by airplane that he decides, for expediency's sake, to take it by bus instead, except for the time involved, there is no difference in outcome. The cargo still goes from Point A to Point B. Changing the mode of transportation didn't change that fact.

Changing the semantics of the mode of getting the billions (trillions) of dollars involved in health care in America under the control of powerful "people controllers" in Washington, D. C., will not change the outcome and consequences. It will only serve to delay the onset of those consequences.

Calling the vehicle a "public option," a "trigger," a "cooperative," or by any other word should not confuse Americans about the cargo's eventual fate. The Far Left wants to transfer this large percentage of the American economy to the control of the state. Congress, the Senate, and the Administration need to be told "no" in no uncertain terms.

Changing the description is just an exercise in semantics. The destination already has been made clear, and it's not in the direction of liberty.

[andy58-in-nh]

It is still "socialism on the installment plan".

The goal remains the same; only the tactics and timetable have changed. The Democrats wish to use Federal laws and regulations to make it impossible for private companies to compete effectively, then blame the companies for failing, and finally institute the "single-payer" system they've desired all along. That's what you call "transparency".

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[dalereed]

install a commie trigger lock and throw away the key!