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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-02-09 07:20 PM
Response to Reply #7
9. I don't think the push back can get any bigger than it already is.
And they are absolutely winning the message war.

Please God - Obama needs to shake it up now.
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  -Pssst, Barack.... Dump The Public Option WeDidIt  Sep-02-09 07:07 PM   #0 
  - Ain't gonna happen  nadinbrzezinski   Sep-02-09 07:09 PM   #1 
  - The beauty of this is, Republicans have come out as Medicare champions  WeDidIt   Sep-02-09 07:12 PM   #2 
  - I know and Medicare for all is Single Payer  nadinbrzezinski   Sep-02-09 07:14 PM   #4 
  - That's the end game  WeDidIt   Sep-02-09 07:15 PM   #5 
     - you seriously think that? i pray that's what he's doing but i have my doubts.  stlsaxman   Sep-03-09 04:39 PM   #73 
  - AND the republicans have been rallying about medicare... and how we have to protect it...  ejpoeta   Sep-02-09 07:29 PM   #11 
     - WOW. This morning is was public option or die!!! Now, eh, who needs a public option? LOL!  timeforpeace   Sep-02-09 09:34 PM   #32 
        - Reread his post.  Mystayya   Sep-03-09 01:00 PM   #53 
  - RAHM is supposed to be the goddamned whip  Canuckistanian   Sep-03-09 06:29 PM   #80 
  - What do you think will happen to health insurance costs if there is no  JDPriestly   Sep-03-09 07:10 PM   #85 
  - This is something I posted in another thread:  DURHAM D   Sep-02-09 07:12 PM   #3 
  - Bingo -  Tangerine LaBamba   Sep-02-09 07:15 PM   #6 
  - Single Payer As A Term Is Radioactive And Would Engender A Big Push-Back......  global1   Sep-02-09 07:18 PM   #7 
  - I don't think the push back can get any bigger than it already is.  DURHAM D   Sep-02-09 07:20 PM   #9 
  - MEDICARE FOR ALL, EVERYONE IN, NO ONE OUT ...  defendandprotect   Sep-03-09 03:31 PM   #63 
  - Best post of the day.  CrispyQ   Sep-02-09 07:46 PM   #13 
  - He won't though; he doesn't have the guts.  alarimer   Sep-02-09 08:13 PM   #21 
  - Well, we are going to find out if he's 'playing chess' or if he simply lacks a spine.  CrispyQ   Sep-03-09 08:13 AM   #46 
  - And now is the perfect time for him to do that, after Rethugs have shown  cui bono   Sep-02-09 08:16 PM   #23 
  - Exactly.  DURHAM D   Sep-02-09 08:28 PM   #26 
  - Agreed ! n/t  slipslidingaway   Sep-02-09 10:18 PM   #38 
  - You Are Assuming Obama Works for the People, Instead Of Corporate America  Toasterlad   Sep-03-09 09:24 AM   #50 
  - The Thom Hartmann plan.  Mojambo   Sep-02-09 07:18 PM   #8 
  - Great idea  lordsummerisle   Sep-02-09 07:28 PM   #10 
  - Bob Dole, McCain, McConnell are braying "START OVER". All righty then. Medicare For All.  seafan   Sep-02-09 07:29 PM   #12 
  - braying  CreekDog   Sep-02-09 08:10 PM   #19 
     - LOLOL Yours resembles Phil Gramm. Check this one out.  seafan   Sep-02-09 08:20 PM   #24 
  - Medicare for all - I'm in  eleny   Sep-02-09 07:53 PM   #14 
  - Great idea. Dems need to take a page out of the Bush notebook.  PA Democrat   Sep-02-09 08:03 PM   #15 
  - Call it something like the "Medicare Security Act". Then the Republicans  harun   Sep-03-09 12:16 PM   #51 
     - Yes Please !! /nt  Overseas   Sep-03-09 01:23 PM   #54 
  - Make Medicare Buy-In the public option "trigger."  muntrv   Sep-02-09 08:04 PM   #16 
  - Brilliant. Here's hoping it happens. n/t  Laelth   Sep-02-09 08:04 PM   #17 
  - i wish  CreekDog   Sep-02-09 08:09 PM   #18 
  - Schip available for all kids under 18  BlueIdaho   Sep-02-09 08:11 PM   #20 
  - I hope, but not optimistic.  GrantDem   Sep-02-09 08:13 PM   #22 
  - Love it! But how do you overcome these objections?  sharesunited   Sep-02-09 08:20 PM   #25 
  - Waiting for the CBO's Single-Payer cost/benefit analysis from August: Wonder if Obama has it now...  seafan   Sep-02-09 08:54 PM   #27 
  - Lindorff is wrong about medicare not having deductibles and copays. nt  DURHAM D   Sep-02-09 09:13 PM   #30 
     - Here is what Lindorff says about co-pays and deductibles disappearing  seafan   Sep-02-09 10:09 PM   #35 
        - Thanks - I just skimmed it.  DURHAM D   Sep-02-09 10:18 PM   #37 
           - You're welcome. What I'd like to see is all the doughnut holes plugged and Part D revamped  seafan   Sep-02-09 10:39 PM   #40 
  - Response to questions: No. No. No. Change. Fix.  DURHAM D   Sep-02-09 09:03 PM   #29 
  - Expanding it to all of us may be the only way to save it.  satya   Sep-02-09 09:50 PM   #34 
     - My feelings as well, from a prior post...  slipslidingaway   Sep-02-09 10:24 PM   #39 
  - Smart people would just cancel all coverage while they are well.  eomer   Sep-02-09 08:55 PM   #28 
  - Not if your choice is private insurance OR Medicare for All  nadinbrzezinski   Sep-02-09 09:36 PM   #33 
     - Well, yes, that's what I'm getting at.  eomer   Sep-03-09 05:42 AM   #45 
  - If he only would. This could be a winner.  jwirr   Sep-02-09 09:16 PM   #31 
  - I already suggested he extend Medicare downward to 45 or 50  mmonk   Sep-02-09 10:12 PM   #36 
  - 2010 expand 50-65  RUMMYisFROSTED   Sep-03-09 09:12 AM   #47 
  - wouldn't that basically be a, um, Public Option?  yodermon   Sep-02-09 11:14 PM   #41 
  - I love it! That's what I want.  Joe Fields   Sep-02-09 11:30 PM   #42 
  - I was secretly hoping this would happen. Good for you to have had the guts to post it.  lib_wit_it   Sep-03-09 12:03 AM   #43 
  - K & R nt  t0dd   Sep-03-09 04:07 AM   #44 
  - Sounds good to me. (nt)  redqueen   Sep-03-09 09:14 AM   #48 
  - That would be checkmate!  kentuck   Sep-03-09 09:21 AM   #49 
  - Very good!  winyanstaz   Sep-03-09 12:58 PM   #52 
  - this sounds good  Autonomy   Sep-03-09 01:26 PM   #55 
  - I'm wondering that too  Bonn1997   Sep-03-09 06:34 PM   #81 
  - Thank you! I've been saying this for a while. I don't think it'll happen, but  GOPBasher   Sep-03-09 01:49 PM   #56 
  - Medicare kept my great-grandmother, and 4 grandparents, and one parent  kestrel91316   Sep-03-09 02:03 PM   #57 
  - The genius of this is  laughingliberal   Sep-03-09 02:09 PM   #58 
  - good idea.  Hannah Bell   Sep-03-09 02:14 PM   #59 
  - Good idea, but it would be  mzmolly   Sep-03-09 02:28 PM   #60 
  - I know Obama is smart enough to come up with such a ploy, however  RoccoR5955   Sep-03-09 03:09 PM   #61 
  - Good thinking . . . open Medicare up to 55 year olds for a start . . .  defendandprotect   Sep-03-09 03:29 PM   #62 
  - Open it up to everybody  WeDidIt   Sep-03-09 03:32 PM   #64 
     - Agree -- open it to everyone . . . but if doing this right now would help . . .  defendandprotect   Sep-03-09 03:34 PM   #67 
     - Bringing in more people to Medicare just gets cheaper as you go  harun   Sep-03-09 03:53 PM   #69 
  - k i c k  defendandprotect   Sep-03-09 03:32 PM   #65 
  - In other words, anyone younger than 65 will be penalized for joining Medicare  derby378   Sep-03-09 03:33 PM   #66 
  - It's an idea . . . to foster opening up the plan . . .  defendandprotect   Sep-03-09 03:38 PM   #68 
  - I LIKE IT!  theFrankFactor   Sep-03-09 03:58 PM   #70 
  - Great Idea!  LiberalLovinLug   Sep-03-09 04:04 PM   #71 
  - That would be beautiful to behold  Politicub   Sep-03-09 04:07 PM   #72 
  - great idea, but the president doesn't write the bills or get them passed  harmonicon   Sep-03-09 04:49 PM   #74 
  - Damned by who is the important part.  Sterling   Sep-03-09 05:49 PM   #78 
     - the bushies had congress behind them - that's the difference  harmonicon   Sep-03-09 06:24 PM   #79 
  - Brilliant! Best post I've read in a month!!!  NoSheep   Sep-03-09 05:14 PM   #75 
  - Sounds good to me!!!!!!  BrklynLiberal   Sep-03-09 05:20 PM   #76 
  - good 1! and if that damn "trigger" BS passes, it should have medicare-buy in as an option  Divine Discontent   Sep-03-09 05:36 PM   #77 
  - Exactly. k&r (nt)  scarletwoman   Sep-03-09 06:35 PM   #82 
  - Boy, that would be music to my ears  mvd   Sep-03-09 06:55 PM   #83 
  - Never-Neverland Times  zogtheobvious   Sep-03-09 07:05 PM   #84 
  - Whoever Coined The Term "Public Option"  tucsonlib   Sep-06-09 09:22 PM   #86 
 

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