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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (14214)	3/9/2010 3:33:13 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

If you have no more intelligent response than an Ad Hominem attack then you surely don't expect respect from anyone.

To: Road Walker who wrote (14214)	3/9/2010 6:36:48 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Nobody of either party believes that Obama will refuse to sign any bill that can be labeled "health care reform" because of anything that is, or is not, in it. This isn't a Rush-originated comment. Obama has committed his administration to passing Obamacare. He has devoted a whole year to it. He is proceeding regardless of popular non-support, regardless of the loss of Teddy Kennedy's seat to a Republican; he is beyond all normal parameters of political self-preservation. He left crafting the bill to Congress, and has made it plain, to the fury of single payer advocates like Dennis Kucinich, that he won't fight for the public option or any specific provision; he just wants a bill to pass. So when the GOP points out to the House that Obama will sign the Senate bill if they pass it, and that Harry Reid has no incentive to do the hard lifting to add any fixes via reconciliation, they are pointing out the obvious. Which is why it is persuasive. From Politico: ""We believe what the President is doing is asking House Democrats to hold hands, jump off a cliff and hope Harry Reid catches them. And Sen. Reid is not going to have any incentive to catch them because by the time the reconciliation bill gets to the Senate, the President will already have signed the health care bill into law and he'll be well on his way to Indonesia," Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said Tuesday, alluding to the White House-imposed deadline of March 18. "We believe the better course for our country is for the House not to pass the Senate bill."