| The following article is meant to re-assure us that Pelosi is not going to back down on advancing real health care reform. Evidently a number of "progressive media" were included in a phone call from her, resulting in the story.
http://mcjoan.dailykos.com/
What Pelosi says on the phone with "progressive media" is not as revealing as what she says on the phone (or in the closed room with no transcript to circulate) with the insurance industry. Her job is to make sure that the industry continues to contribute more to Democrats than to Republicans. Those conversations are most certainly not recorded and available for download.
And why do the progressive media place a definite article before the words "public option?" What exactly is "the" public option? It seems there are many versions of it, none of which would removely resemble anything that a Canadian would recognize, and most of which don't seem to be publicly available at all.
I'm tired of the giddiness that results from these bones being thrown to people who say they want single payer health care.
I hope no one is going to ask me to "thank" Pelosi (no, I'll support her opponents who don't accept funds from corporate influencers) or to tell me (as another single payer advocacy group did) that as a "bold progressive" I should thank Olver for requesting a public option when there are no specifics. Politicians need to do much more than that to get my thanks, let alone my vote. They need to vote FOR things that advance single payer, vote AGAINST things that don't, and REJECT the influence of health insurance industry interests.
Obama states that he doesn't want to put health insurance companies out of business. I do; the rest of the world has shown that private insurance policies are not necessary for 95% of the public in other societies. Let's make private policies the "option" that 5% buy to supplement the public plan that delivers quality to all. |
