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Lindsay Graham on health care: "Is There a Deal to be Made on Health Care?"

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Sun, 08/09/2009 - 12:41pm — lambert

Do you really have to ask? Of course there is: Embrace the suck!

You know, if Obama or the FKDP leadership or the "public option" advocates had a plan on offer that would drive the insurance companies out of business like Graham says it would, I'd be wearing a T-shirt with "O" on it right now and I'd have been making the calls. They never did. We got the yes-butters' bait and switch instead.

So Graham's "deal" is the absolute worst case scenario -- A mandate with no public option -- as opposed to the next worst case scenario on offer from the Dems: A mandate with a public option FAIL.

Well done, all.

Remind me again why any bill is better than a bad bill?

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It gets better, thanks to the noble Dr. Dean!

By vastleft on Sun, 08/09/2009 - 2:08pm

Howard Dean spins the bug into a feature, bragging that only 5-10 million will be in the plan.

That'll keep (haw!) the insurance companies honest, won't it?

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two comments have been voted down in that thread

By hipparchia on Sun, 08/09/2009 - 2:51pm

one from a free markets fan, and this one from a single payer advocate:

9. poll.democratz.org says:

This comment has been voted down. Click to read.

Click on my username to sign a petition demanding single payer health care.

Click this to demand Blue dog Mike Ross help get HR 676 single payer enacted into law http://bit.ly/single_payer_ross
August 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

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