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Published Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 | 6:42 a.m.
Updated Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 | 6:44 a.m.
Those are the results of a poll conducted for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which has been pushing for a public option and its pollster, Research 2000, previously has done work in Nevada to pressure Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Research 2000 also polls in the state for the Reno Gazette-Journal. The poll:
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It's NOT insurance reform without a public option, it's burdening small business owners and handing 23 million new customers to insurance companies who operate on a 40% profit margin to please shareholders and Wall Street.
The Democrats have tried over and over and over to work with the minority party, but the Republicans have never bargained in good faith.
It's long past time to get a good bill passed into law and to stop waiting for Republicans to quit their loony temper tantrums.
The last thing America needs is some half-baked Republican giveaway to the bloated insurance industry parasites, in my opinion.
Where and whom did the pollster speak with in Las Vegas.Not one tv station( not this newspaper either)publish the health care bill for the people to read for themselves and form their own oppinion, its always the experts telling the people what they think. There will be no health care bill as long as the rich never have to worry about it.When they cant afford it health care will happen quick,and both democrates and the republicans will support it,but only then.
Does anybody really think Congress cares what Nevadans want?
Does anybody really think Harry Reid cares what Nevadans want?
This is just another poll, one of thousands. Throw it on the pile with the rest of them.
Well, at least this wasn't a poll by Mason-Dixon, which polls only the households of R-J editors.
Mia_Kulper, get your head out of the sand. The democrats locked the republicans out of negotiations on HC and even with a super majority, back door dealings, bribes and threats couldn't get that monstrosity passed. Obama, Reid and Pelosi already have more back door dealings prepared to threaten republicans with before the supposed summit Obama announced. People want HC reform but not all the pork and pandering to the special interests that was written into Obama's bill.
Mia, can you be specific about the pork that was included in the plans or were you just using baseless rhetoric?
"Not one tv station( not this newspaper either)publish the health care bill for the people to read for themselves and form their own oppinion, its always the experts telling the people what they think"
Experts, or Faux Noise channel? I ask because you apparently have internet access, so why can't you just do a google search, like I did, and click on the link? If you're going to think for yourself, learn to do your own research.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?...
NoLongerADemo writes: "Mia_Kulper, get your head out of the sand. The democrats locked the republicans out of negotiations on HC ..."
Despite countless attempts to invite Repulicans into the debate, all they've done is shriek about "death panels" and get in the way.
They don't want to participate in anything that Americans will like while the opposition is in control.
Republicans really want to see America go down in flames because they think that's the only way they can get back in power.
drjambaman writes: "Mia, can you be specific about the pork that was included in the plans or were you just using baseless rhetoric?"
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I was referring to the notion of forcing Americans to buy health insurance from the bloated insurance industry without any public option insurance plan.
That is nothing more than a giveaway to the insurance industry parasites, in my opinion.
Public Option or the Wellpoint Option.
You choose
I will take Wellpoint over anything incompetent idiots who run the government can come up with.
Naturally, that would be up to you.
And so what if Wellpoint decides to cancel your health insurance if you get sick (like they did to 1700 policyholders in California) after you paid your premiums for years. That's the beauty of the free market!
The CEO will still get his $20 million bonus whether you live or die. That's the important thing.
No public option, no peace!
what happens when you are seventy five, very healthy except you need a knee replacement. You fill out the form, send it to the mentally retarded idiot who works for the government who looks on a chart and sends you a message that the knee replacement is $35,000 and the limit for treatment of someone seventy five is $25,000. Sorry sucker.
What happens when your insurance company does that to you today?
The current Obamacare bill is full of bribes and lies. It needs to be thrown in a trashcan and start over. Make Obama, Reid, and Pelosi discuss all elements of a new bill in public and you might get something palatable.
How 'bout if we let you call it The PelosiCare Bill instead of "Obamacare?" Would that make it more "palatable" for you?
No but seriously Chuckles, I agree to a point that the Senate's Healthcare Reform Bill ain't the greatest, the way it turned out.
I don't appreciate being extorted by DINO jackasses like Senator Ben Nelson or ignored by Senator Max Baucus, or held hostage by Joe Lieberman's feelings.
Those senators were empowered way beyond their merit last year by the GOP's lockstep NO-TO-EVERYTHING posturing combined with the bare supermajority the Senate Democrats briefly had.
That combination made kings of Liberman, Nelson, Bauccus, Landrieu etc. They knew that each and every one of them was needed to overcome the lockstep GOPer obstruction to healthcare reform (and everything else).
So yeah, I can agree with you that there's a lot about the Senate Bill that I don't like. What I really want is the choice of a strong public option insurance plan to buy into.
So now that Scott Brown has de-throned Nelson, Bauccus etc., I'm hopeful that they'll get a good bill passed and/or fixed through reconcilliation.
I couldn't care less if any GOPers vote for it or not, as long as it's a good bill.