Comments on: I Can Has Health Care? http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:18:17 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: LauraClawson http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965520 LauraClawson Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:19:01 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965520 <p>I don’t know about Berman himself, but the <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/08/27/data-iwf/" rel="nofollow">Wonk Room</a> just had a post on some of the connections between anti-HRC and anti-Employee Free Choice groups.</p> I don’t know about Berman himself, but the Wonk Room just had a post on some of the connections between anti-HRC and anti-Employee Free Choice groups.

]]> By: LauraClawson http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965519 LauraClawson Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:17:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965519 <p>Err, sorry. I stayed around for about an hour then had to step out. Just checking back now…</p> Err, sorry. I stayed around for about an hour then had to step out. Just checking back now…

]]> By: sporkovat http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965491 sporkovat Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:15:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965491 <p>Hey Gitcheegumee!</p> <p>welcome to the thrilling discussion where the visitor from Kos haughtily ignores everyone who is off message!</p> Hey Gitcheegumee!

welcome to the thrilling discussion where the visitor from Kos haughtily ignores everyone who is off message!

]]> By: WordBloom http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965490 WordBloom Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:10:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965490 <p>Cost controls are a perfectly reasonable objection to the Public Option. And if that objection can somehow be discredited, there is no reason the likes of Warner and others should not come on board. There was a great article in the New Yorker regarding Cost Control in June 2009:<br /><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande" rel="nofollow">http://www.newyorker.com/repor.....ct_gawande</a></p> Cost controls are a perfectly reasonable objection to the Public Option. And if that objection can somehow be discredited, there is no reason the likes of Warner and others should not come on board. There was a great article in the New Yorker regarding Cost Control in June 2009:
http://www.newyorker.com/repor…..ct_gawande

]]> By: WordBloom http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965489 WordBloom Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:03:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965489 <p>Gee Whiz, that is strong language… not. Again, strikes the tone of appeasement. Public Option should be “A make or break thing,” if he wants his constituency to remain in place.</p> Gee Whiz, that is strong language… not. Again, strikes the tone of appeasement. Public Option should be “A make or break thing,” if he wants his constituency to remain in place.

]]> By: TomWells http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965488 TomWells Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:58:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965488 <p>Good news!</p> <p>A spokesman for Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) confirms to me that Warner would vote for a health care bill with a public option. “It’s not a make or break thing–he wants to see a health reform bill that contains costs, and if it includes a public option…he would vote for it.”</p> <p><a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/warner-ill-vote-for-public-option-if-health-care-reform-legislation-contains-costs.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.....-costs.php</a></p> Good news!

A spokesman for Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) confirms to me that Warner would vote for a health care bill with a public option. “It’s not a make or break thing–he wants to see a health reform bill that contains costs, and if it includes a public option…he would vote for it.”

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo…..-costs.php

]]> By: masslib http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965487 masslib Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:57:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965487 <p>Why is AFL-CIO uninviting single payer advocates from their events?</p> <p><a href="http://www.davidswanson.org/node/2053" rel="nofollow">http://www.davidswanson.org/node/2053</a></p> Why is AFL-CIO uninviting single payer advocates from their events?

http://www.davidswanson.org/node/2053

]]> By: WordBloom http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965486 WordBloom Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:54:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965486 <p>“…it’s partly about who’s being covered by the media — the screamers are more sexy and exciting for tv coverage, you know.”</p> <p>This is an important point you make.<br /> So, how to get News coverage?<br /> Perhaps a few thousand people in the Streets outside of the White House when Obama and everyone else returns from vacation. A little Shock and Awe? Many legislators (even on the left) have been hoping the Public Option noise will just go away. Its why they tossed the bone of CIA memos before they left the Hill. It’s time to turn up the volume… before they do name a wishy-washy, no PO bill after Ted Kennedy.</p> “…it’s partly about who’s being covered by the media — the screamers are more sexy and exciting for tv coverage, you know.”

This is an important point you make.
So, how to get News coverage?
Perhaps a few thousand people in the Streets outside of the White House when Obama and everyone else returns from vacation. A little Shock and Awe? Many legislators (even on the left) have been hoping the Public Option noise will just go away. Its why they tossed the bone of CIA memos before they left the Hill. It’s time to turn up the volume… before they do name a wishy-washy, no PO bill after Ted Kennedy.

]]> By: Gitcheegumee http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965485 Gitcheegumee Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:49:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965485 <p>Good afternoon,Ms. Connell:</p> <p>Would you happen to know if Rick Berman is behind a lot of this anti-health care reform, the way he has been ,along with the Chamber of Commerce, lobbying against EFCA?</p> Good afternoon,Ms. Connell:

Would you happen to know if Rick Berman is behind a lot of this anti-health care reform, the way he has been ,along with the Chamber of Commerce, lobbying against EFCA?

]]> By: BargainCountertenor http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965484 BargainCountertenor Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:41:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/27/i-can-has-health-care/#comment-1965484 <p>You’re right. Plain vanilla Medicare isn’t all that and a bowl of chips. But supplemental policies are available and tend to be reasonably priced. Beyond that, universal Medicare would be a damned sight better than anything currently being proposed.</p> You’re right. Plain vanilla Medicare isn’t all that and a bowl of chips. But supplemental policies are available and tend to be reasonably priced. Beyond that, universal Medicare would be a damned sight better than anything currently being proposed.

]]>