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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-25-09 03:35 AM
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27. This is why no one has wanted to define the meaning of Public Option
This is why some like me have been asking for a definition.People are going to be very angry when they learn the truth.
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  -Wyden: most of the public seems to have been fooled into thinking -- eridani  Oct-24-09 05:26 AM   #0 
  - If that GIGANTIC problem is not corrected, the Democrats could lose control of the Senate/House.  Selatius   Oct-24-09 05:30 AM   #1 
  - it's telling that most people don't know this. you'd think the media would have time to explain the  Hannah Bell   Oct-24-09 05:40 AM   #2 
  - a thought:  whathehell   Oct-24-09 05:49 AM   #4 
     - Why should that be National News?  Toots   Oct-24-09 07:55 AM   #10 
     - Think of it as a kind of national diary  whathehell   Oct-24-09 04:35 PM   #20 
     - Oh, and the most recent missing young woman in the news was Asian.  Quantess   Oct-24-09 08:21 PM   #23 
  - Boy do I feel like a sucker  rucky   Oct-24-09 05:43 AM   #3 
  - "IMO, we're playing right into GOP hands"  FatDave   Oct-24-09 10:08 AM   #17 
  - Wyden is right and it's a big problem.  Lasher   Oct-24-09 05:55 AM   #5 
  - They are trying to make the public option more like the garbage proposed for the exchange  eridani   Oct-24-09 07:24 AM   #7 
     - Well they need to have someplace to stick the people insurance companies don't want.  Lasher   Oct-24-09 10:06 AM   #16 
        - See below  eridani   Oct-24-09 08:45 PM   #25 
  - no way will the insurers allow an option open to all - would cut way too far into their  DrDan   Oct-24-09 06:20 AM   #6 
  - He didn't even mention that it isn't available until 2013  eridani   Oct-24-09 07:26 AM   #8 
  - i saw that right away. because we have access to employer based healthcare...  ejpoeta   Oct-24-09 07:49 AM   #9 
  - But but FOX News tells us this is so. Government take over will REQUIRE  Toots   Oct-24-09 07:58 AM   #11 
  - What the government will be forcing us to do is to deal with useless intermediaries  eridani   Oct-24-09 08:11 AM   #12 
  - Wyden is correct  Bluenorthwest   Oct-24-09 08:14 AM   #13 
  - Obama made this absolutely clear in his speech  TorchTheWitch   Oct-24-09 08:39 AM   #14 
  - Maybe most Americans are not fooled! They know they NEED a public option  Generic Other   Oct-24-09 09:16 AM   #15 
  - Wyden's point is that they will not be allowed to GET it.  eridani   Oct-24-09 08:17 PM   #21 
  - What if you are unemplyed, get on the PO, then get a job with benefits?  FatDave   Oct-24-09 10:17 AM   #18 
  - Not clear at all. So much for "choosing your doctor"  eridani   Oct-24-09 08:19 PM   #22 
  - He is so right!  ljm2002   Oct-24-09 11:23 AM   #19 
  - k&r n/t  Joe the Liberal   Oct-24-09 08:39 PM   #24 
  - knr nt  slipslidingaway   Oct-25-09 12:33 AM   #26 
  - This is why no one has wanted to define the meaning of Public Option  saracat   Oct-25-09 03:35 AM   #27 
 

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