On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Of course Republicans were involved in the health care discussions, to >> claim otherwise is absurd. The entire notion of a "public option" was >> a compromise from the original idea of a single payer health plan. > > That was one Senator, Olympia Snow, saying if they removed that item > she'd vote for it.
No, the notion of a public option was a compromise with Republicans who did not want to see a Single Payer system brought into the discussion. Later the Public Option was removed due to demands from Senators such as Olympia Snowe. And even once they removed that from the Senate bill, Snowe still didn't vote for it. Perhaps you've entirely blocked out the months and months and months of negotiations on this matter, but the Senate bill was forged in a bipartisan fashion with the so-called Gang of 6 which included Snowe, Enzi and Grassley from the GOP. And, quite notably, did not include a single progressive member of the Senate on the Democrat side. > The entire process was in Reids offeice behind closed doors and no > Republicans allowed in. They weren't even allowed to read it until a > couple of hours before the vote. > Which brings us to Pelosi's comment: "But we have to pass the bill so > that you can find out what is in it" This is a lie. See the Gang of 6. > Not true at all. They keep saying it's so awful and expensive we need > to start over but this time include them in the negotiations. Why is > being included in negotiations such a bad thing? They were included in negotiations. The fact that their offerings stink to high heaven doesn't mean they weren't listened to. Sadly, they were listened to far more than those of us who want to see actual reform passed would like. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313302 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
