Victoria Reggie Kennedy (R) widow of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) smiles while Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)(L), gets a hug from Sen.Christopher Dodd (D-CT)(C), after the Senate passed a procedural vote on health are reform on December 21, 2009 in Washington, DC. The Senate passed the first of three crucial procedural votes on health care by a 60 to 40 margin. Getty Images
...Mr. Obama's oft-stated goal of a bipartisan health bill was not met (click title to entry - thank you), despite the president's extensive courtship of moderate Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, the only Republican to support the bill in committee. Mr. Obama called Ms. Snowe to the White House for lengthy in-person meetings both before he left for climate talks in Copenhagen and after his return on Saturday. In the end Ms. Snowe said she was “extremely disappointed” in what she called a rushed process that left scant time for her to review, much less amend, the bill....
The nation is going to have heath care reform. President Obama is not a dictator. It is what sets the USA apart from some nations that simply have one man making decisions. It would seem as though Lieberman is a dictator, though. He is protecting his cronies and driving up the cost of regular health care.
This is reform the country needs. To stop now would be simply stupid. There are people dying every year in the 10s of thousands. That will increase from here on and we cannot allow that to happen. If the cost of health care skyrockets without sufficient programs to control costs and KEEP it within REASON, the amount of people dying each year or getting 'sicker' might turn into a higher incident rate. We just can't turn back and ignore the reality of our Broken Health Care System.
This is no joke. It isn't a matter of politics. This is the reality of the American people and the way legilators invested in Wall Street rather than the people simply 'dispose' of people to uphold some 'idea' of extreme capitalism. When making money is more important than 'reasonable' cost to consumers to maintain their health, it is time to do something about it.
The legislators have taken this issue as seriously as they needed to and came to the side of the people. They may have done so at their own political peril, but, the facts are the facts and they can't walk away from that just because the electorate was 'poisoned' by a media mogal. No, no, it doesn't work that way.
Lieberman comes from a state with dense interest in insurance. He is standing in the way of 'reasonable' competition among the 'entities' that can come to bear to bring about better competition with the private sector. He is opposing the Public Option at the expense of average citizens. That is corruption. Lieberman is responsible for it and NO ONE ELSE.
The House came through for the people and included a Public Option for competition with the private sector. The Public Option is a 'sufficient' insurance, but, it doesn't supply as much as most private insurance policies provide, so there is no reason to oppose such a measure, UNLESS, one is heavily invested in the Wall Street Insurance Sector for their political populism.
So, at the end of the day, if costs to consumers go up, when it didn't have to, everyone will know who to blame.
I believe the Democrats are great people and do all the hard work. I am grateful for them.
We are one step closer.
Go, Democrats, Go !
