[DennisR]

Hm...you sure about this? I have heard differing stories.

[maddog55]

I’m not buying this. Somewhere there’s a trigger that will happen regardless. These idiots won’t bend.

[rarestia]

I’m not buying this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Dingy Harry tries to buy some votes.

“Oh, Senator Nelson, you want $200 billion for backward-running corn field pickers? You’ve got it (but you need to vote FOR the bill).”

I pray every day that this bill goes down in a simple vote. The Democrats will show their true colors when that happens, saying that “Republicans deep sixed the health of America! Bush lied, people died (from no health care)!”

[library user]

I really don’t think it matters. I think a lot of Dem’s are going to jump ship and not vote for any of this - public option or not - given O’s continuing decline in the polls, especially just over the last month or two.

You got 55% or more who are opposed to this so-called reform, plus another 53% or more who disapprove of Obama, yet you - a member of Congress - are willing to vote for what he wants, even though it’s wildly unpopular?

Anyone who votes for this turd will go down, just like O, except two years earlier, in 2010.

[bossmechanic]

From the original article:
“At its core, the legislation, now minus the so-called public option, would expand health care to millions who lack it, ban insurance companies from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions, and rein in health-care spending nationally. “

And just how is this? Force all insured to pay higher premiums + cut pay to doctors + bury doctors with more patients???
Just askin’

[libertylover]

In its place, officials said, Democrats had settled on a private insurance arrangement to be supervised by the federal agency that oversees the system through which lawmakers purchase coverage, with the possibilitycertainty of greater government involvement, if needed, to ensure consumers enough choices complete government control in the near future.

[Man50D]

This is a bunch of socialist BS for two reasons.

1. Any legislation before Congress is a government mandate.The whole purpose of this bill to to takeover the health care industry. claiming to remove the government run health care aspect couldn’t be more disingenuous!

2. Any federal version of health care on it’s face and regardless of content is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically grant Congress the power to regulate health care. This is the point people need to be driving home with their Congress critters!

[Venturer]

Thre are so many things in this administration that parallel Nazi Germany that it is frightening.

[Jim Noble]

Dems ditch public option

Oh, look! The rattlesnake is sleeping!

Quick, let's step over him!

[conservativefromGa]

They are now going the Medicare route. They want to drop the age to 55 as a compromise. Then it will be 45, 35, 25, eventually it will be the single payer system

[arthurus]

Or more accurately, laid it temporarily aside to be passed later as an amendment to an appropriations bill.

[RoadTest]

“Dems ditch public option”

I wouldn’t trust them.

[b4its2late]

I don’t believe it.

[SoFloFreeper]

The public option is NOT abandoned.

The AP could report “Democrats say they’ve abandoned the public option.” THAT would be true—they SAY they’ve done thus and such.

But they haven’t. They’ve repackaged it...and if Landrieu, Lincoln, Lieberman and Nelson fall for this lie then they’re major league ignoramuses.