The Dems are renaming the public option:
The plan, called the “robust” option or “Medicare Plus 5” in the jargon that has emerged on Capitol Hill, ties provider reimbursement rates to Medicare, adding 5 percent. Leaders are planning to roll the bill out next week, and are hoping to vote the first week in November
Fred called this one on September 30th:
starts wrote:
The Senate Finance Committee voted down a public option amendment to the health care bill. Does that mean it’s finally dead?
Probably not. They’ll just change the name and put it back up again. So if you hear about the “super duper non-private double-happy health care delight option”, be suspicious.
Prescience is just one of The Fred’s many awesome powers.
Fred uses a double-barreled shotgun that fires truth and insight.
Fred has lasers in his mind that can fire in all directions at once. Harvey is a high-power quantum lens.
Be suspicious? When can a citizen of this country ever not be suspicious of the government.?
Oh! NO! Public Option is the ideal name for it! when you analyze that it means that the people have no choice.
Democrat Congressman 1: We are now no longer the Congressman who say Ni.
Democrat Congressman 2: Ni!
Other Democrat Congressmen: Shh…
Congressman 1: We are now the Congressmen who say… ”Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG-Zoom-Boing- Z’nourrwringmm-Health Care Bill!
You can always tell when a politician is out to harm the American Public… they draft legislation. Every time you see a politician drafting or voting for new legislation, hit them on the nose with a rolled up news paper and sternly tell them “NO!”. How else are they going to learn?
Never in the history of the world have so many sleezy people been part of the same organization. heck the klan had more integrity than nancy the blob and dingy harry. maybe the reverend al jackson can talk sense to them?
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