AP Sources: Bipartisan Group Omitting Dem Goals

[Bumblebee]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Officials say that a bipartisan group in the Senate is edging closer to a health care compromise that omits a government insurance option that President Barack Obama favors. Nor is it expected to require businesses to offer coverage to their employees.

Like health care bills drafted by Democrats, the proposal under discussion by a group of lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee would bar insurance companies from denying coverage to any applicant. It also would prevent firms from charging higher premiums on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/27/us/politics/AP-US-Health-Care-Overhaul.html

[county worker]

1. Screw bipartisanship! The repukes and blue puppy Dems don't want any changes to health care.

Why compromise with the devil?

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. THIS WILL BE A WAR

[wtbymark]

3. Dear Prez Obama

no public option = VETO

send em back and say 'get it right'

[grytpype]

4. Nobody panic, all the Dems have to do is use the budget reconciliation process.

If they use budget reconciliation, all they need is 50 votes plus Biden, and the "moderates" can go fuck themselves, each other, and each other's pets.

And Obama has always said that is an option.

[MidwestTransplant]

5. In other words, this will only cause costs to rise further and not cover everybody.

What a fucking joke they are.