Reply #28: Agreed

[eleny]

Even Obama spoke of the Health Care issue in a holistic way when he said it was key to getting the economy back on a healthy track. So it's more than disappointing when in the face of having the votes in the Senate, he pivoted away from supporting some form of a public option, except for the subsidies of insurance premiums.

That's presuming that the Senators who supported the Bennet letter were honest. Time will tell if that was real or smoke and mirrors. Right now, as I type this, David Sirota is delivering a petition signed by over 30k people to Senator Michael Bennet's office in Denver demanding that he offer a Public Option amendment to the Reconciliation bill. Since the House already voted for such, there's no reason to refrain from an amendment.

On his radio show this morning, Sirota pointed out that this whole duck and sway by Congress over this issue is how Congress deceives the public. He said that he worked in the House for five years and has experience working in the Appropriations Committee. He's sure that this is what's going on right now and he aims to corner Bennet and force the truth. I hope they cover Sirota on the local news today.