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salguine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 09:17 AM
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13. So let's get this straight...a public plan that would be forced to play by the same rules
that private insurance companies would give us...what? A public health insurance program that ALSO would fight tooth and nail to withhold healthcare?

Sheeeeeit.
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  -Schumer Offers Middle Ground on Health Care groundloop  May-05-09 08:38 AM   #0 
  - I don't trust Schumer at all.  pleah   May-05-09 08:40 AM   #1 
  - What's the matter with  lsewpershad   May-05-09 10:32 AM   #21 
  - Wasn't Schumer the senator that helped drive Paul Hackett away from running for congress?  cascadiance   May-05-09 01:38 PM   #32 
     - Yes, he was - along with other members of the DLC.  avaistheone1   May-06-09 11:57 AM   #49 
  - does that include stockholders who demand by law to be paid from profits by  angstlessk   May-05-09 08:43 AM   #2 
  - "Middle Ground" == "Make it as expensive as private insurance."  billyoc   May-05-09 08:53 AM   #3 
  - In other words  dflprincess   May-05-09 12:57 PM   #24 
     - exactly  jsamuel   May-05-09 01:10 PM   #28 
  - To hell with Schumer  Ticonderoga   May-05-09 08:57 AM   #4 
  - The time to push for a public option is NOW.  PassingFair   May-05-09 09:03 AM   #5 
  - Correction. Now is the time to push for SINGLE PAYER  eridani   May-05-09 04:56 PM   #41 
  - DING DING DING! Groundloop, you're our grand prize winner!  rocktivity   May-05-09 09:06 AM   #6 
  - Schmuck Schumer can go Schfuck himself. n/t  Ian David   May-05-09 09:09 AM   #7 
  - the phrase "middle ground" gives me hives  ima_sinnic   May-05-09 09:12 AM   #8 
  - LOL ..."hives" and your avatar.  L0oniX   May-05-09 09:16 AM   #11 
  - Repuges are speaking from both sides of their mouths  EC   May-05-09 09:13 AM   #9 
  - Screw the HMO & health insurance sociopaths.  L0oniX   May-05-09 09:14 AM   #10 
  - Another massive give away to the insurance corps under the guise of helping americans.  Javaman   May-05-09 09:16 AM   #12 
  - So let's get this straight...a public plan that would be forced to play by the same rules  salguine   May-05-09 09:17 AM   #13 
  - That's not the idea Chuck, the idea is to use the public plan as a CLUB to bankrupt the HMOs. nt  bemildred   May-05-09 09:19 AM   #14 
  - Schumer doing the loser game again. Start in the middle and settle to the far right  Robbien   May-05-09 09:24 AM   #15 
  - Yep. n/t  antigop   May-05-09 09:46 AM   #17 
  - Take your idea and shove it Schumer.  Jefferson23   May-05-09 09:40 AM   #16 
  - Don't get mad -- get even!  SandWalker1984   May-05-09 09:55 AM   #18 
  - Unfortunately  groundloop   May-05-09 11:46 AM   #22 
     - Ecuse me, I take that prize  sazemisery   May-05-09 03:08 PM   #34 
  - Drive the, out of business. If they had been honest brokers of health  MasonJar   May-05-09 10:17 AM   #19 
  - Everyone sign the Dean petition and contribute if you can. It may be  MasonJar   May-05-09 10:21 AM   #20 
  - This isn't a "middle ground" at all! Look at the priniciples Schumer has proposed:  Frank Booth   May-05-09 12:54 PM   #23 
  - Then how can it be a public plan?  mvd   May-05-09 01:08 PM   #27 
  - This isn't about Schumer...  Iowa   May-05-09 01:05 PM   #25 
  - By George, I think you've got it!!  freddie mertz   May-06-09 08:25 AM   #46 
  - FUCK MIDDLE GROUND ... Schumer - you should have gotten a brain transplant along with your hair  TheCoxwain   May-05-09 01:06 PM   #26 
  - it's a poison pill strategy at work....  mike_c   May-05-09 01:23 PM   #29 
  - Exactly right.  Frank Booth   May-06-09 01:21 AM   #42 
  - A public system will drive private plans out of business  wryter2000   May-05-09 01:31 PM   #30 
  - There are rules for private insurance companies??  proud2BlibKansan   May-05-09 01:35 PM   #31 
  - The public option already is a compromise.  PHIMG   May-05-09 01:50 PM   #33 
  - fookem  whathappened   May-05-09 03:48 PM   #35 
  - Why Should I Pay a Bunch of Parasitical Middlemen  fascisthunter   May-05-09 04:13 PM   #36 
  - There is no middle ground - Single Payer Now!  dpbrown   May-05-09 04:22 PM   #37 
  - "comply with all the rules and standards that apply to private insurance"  lumberjack_jeff   May-05-09 04:24 PM   #38 
  - "The aspens turn in clusters, because their roots connect them."  RUMMYisFROSTED   May-05-09 04:26 PM   #39 
  - Peel back the onion a bit, and this is a good thing.  lumberjack_jeff   May-05-09 04:27 PM   #40 
  - Will this 'middle ground'  xxqqqzme   May-06-09 01:35 AM   #43 
  - ''rules and standards for private insurance''? Do they have any that they don't make up themselves?  yurbud   May-06-09 02:47 AM   #44 
  - Middle ground my ass..  annabanana   May-06-09 06:14 AM   #45 
  - Thanks for this.  Habibi   May-06-09 10:27 AM   #47 
  - But Chuck, you guys say we have the best system in the world. Surely no one will choose the  Overseas   May-06-09 11:29 AM   #48 
  - Middle ground means "insuring a few more people without pissing off the Insurance Lobby"  Doctor_J   May-06-09 12:08 PM   #50 
 

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