Friday, September 25, 2009

Don't Give Up Hope For The Public Option

According to a New York Times poll:

By a margin of 52 percent to 27 percent, Americans believe President Obama has better ideas about overhauling health care than Republicans do, according to a national poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News. And nearly two-thirds of the country supports creation of a government-run insurance plan, or public option. Read the full story.

Folks are waking up to the fact that having health insurance will, very likely, be mandatory, and a good many will want an alternative to fattening the profits of the health insurance companies who treat many of their sick clients so badly. The Congress will have hell to pay if they do not provide a public option that will serve anyone who wants in and not just the poor and unemployed.

Watch Sen. Ron Wyden on Countdown with Lawrence O'Donnell.

3 comments:

  1. Who knows? We keep our fingers crossed, but.... What became of the Filibuster "Nuclear Option" with which the Republicans beat the Democrats - forever "Elephant-whipped", it seems - into submission in the mid 2000's?

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  2. And Ted Kennedy's replacement, Paul Kirk, is sworn in. Thank goodness for that.

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  3. I will pray hard because this is an important addition we NEED!

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