No, no, no, no.doublem wrote:Public option back?
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Is Harry Reid more progressive than socialist Obama?
Shouldn't conservatives be in favor of this since it has a choice of "opt-out"?
Harry Reid is going down in a blaze of glory right now. There is no way in hell he is getting reelected in Nevada. Last I checked, he was getting trounced by "Unnamed Republican".
The opt-out clause is yet another example of the Democrats' trying to use wordplay to make this garbage bill look more palatable. Every single state will be paying for this massive bill, regardless of whether or not they "opt out". So how many states do you think are going to say "You know what, we don't want to take part in this healthcare bill, but we will still have our taxes raised to pay for it". Not in a million years, and the Dems know that.
Oh, and did you hear that Pelosi/Reid are thinking about renaming the public option the "consumer option"? There was another alternative proposed to, I forget what it was. This bill is designed so that it is cheaper for employers to pay the one-time fine for not providing their employees health insurance then it would be to provide a plan. So what's gonna happen? Most employers will drop their employer-run insurance plan, thus forcing YOU to accept the public option. It is not an "option", just like the "opt out clause" is unrealistic.
The emphasis over the past couple weeks for Pelosi and Reid has been to change the wording, use different phrases to try and convince more people it isn't what it is. For anyone here that supports this public option/government run system, every single time a Democratic politician has been asked if they would accept the same system for themselves and their family, they have either found an excuse to say no or dodged the question. That should be a point of alarm for anyone with a rational mind.