Reply #25: Blue Dogs and ConservaDems: 'Public option for health care? FU, little people.'

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Blue Dogs Demand Tight Constraints on Any Public Health Plan Option, June 4, 2009

Conservative House Democrats set strict conditions Thursday for any government-run insurance plan Congress creates as part of a health care overhaul, ruling out support for a plan that resembles Medicare — the option favored by many liberals.

The lines drawn by the Blue Dog Coalition, if adhered to by lawmakers crafting the health overhaul, would result in a government-run plan that works much like private insurance plans.

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..... Blue Dogs/ConservaDems Republicans consider Kennedy's public plan an intolerable threat to the private insurance industry. ....

Medical bills led to two-thirds of bankruptcies in 2007, study finds, June 4, 2009


Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) Tells Single-Payer Advocates No, June 3, 2009


Digby: Until we neuter the Blue Dogs, it will be nearly impossible to enact liberal legislation. , February 12, 2009


Rachel Maddow: Evan Bayh and his "ConservaDem" coalition, March 19, 2009


Evan Bayh: From Possible Obama VP to Backstabber, March 26, 2009


Blue Dogs/ConservaDems: (One of) Your moment(s) of truth: Obama to close offshore tax havens., May 4, 2009



Blue Dogs and ConservaDems, get out of our way, We The People are coming.