My frigging COUNTY has more people than Montana! Baucus has to go! Harry Reid, grow a pair!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

(sorry Montanans but I'm pissed)

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HEALTH_CARE_OVERHAUL?SITE=VAROA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

ep 8, 9:41 PM EDT

Fines proposed for going without health insurance

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday as divisions among Democrats undercut President Barack Obama's effort to regain traction on his health care overhaul.

As Obama talked strategy with Democratic leaders at the White House, the one idea that most appeals to his party's liberal base lost ground in Congress. Prospects for a government-run plan to compete with private insurers sank as a leading moderate Democrat said he could no longer support the idea.

The fast-moving developments put Obama in a box. As a candidate, he opposed fines to force individuals to buy health insurance, and he supported setting up a public insurance plan. On Tuesday, fellow Democrats publicly begged to differ on both ideas.

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The latest proposal: a ten-year, $900-billion bipartisan compromise that Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., a moderate who heads the influential Finance Committee, was trying to broker. It would guarantee coverage for nearly all Americans, regardless of medical problems.

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[valerief]

1. And give up what they're getting? Never! nt

[jaysunb]

2. My county ( Los Angeles ) has 16 times the # of the entire state

:shrug:

[Taverner]

3. In an ideal world, he would suddenly come to and retire on the spot

Unfortunately, we do not live in that world

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. Know who wrote the bill for him? A former Wellpoint employee!!!!

http://bit.ly/3VTyH8

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. kick!