To Defeat Public Option, Insurance Companies Employ the ‘Statue of Liberty Play’
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immoral to bankrupt the country

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Another 8-year amnesiac?

immoral to bankrupt the country

this coming from someone who voted for the bush tax cuts.

She just won reelection for Christ's sake. What a profile in cowardice.

And incoherence:

"I'd like to cover everyone -- that would be the moral thing to do -- but it would be immoral to bankrupt the country while doing so," Landrieu said.

. . conveniently ignoring the fact that the public option will lower costs, not raise them. Not to mention ignoring the fact that health care reform will pay for itself and reduce costs over the long run.

To be honest, Landrieu is just being an advocate for her state. If Louisianns' were polled I bet they would be against the public option.

why blame the parasites like landrieu?

lets be honest here.
could these politicins exist if the people voting for them were not so dumb?

and in some cases just motivated by pure hate?

I think she is communicating to the President, Dems, and her constituency that she wants heathcare but the benefits need to be more effectivly communicated to make it possible.

She saying "I believe in and can sell the moral aspect of this, but I need help fighting the miscinception that it will Bankrupt the country in the process".

Dems should see her statement(and any statement by a politician, in general) in the context of the wiggle room left in the statement. Wiggle room in statements are cries for political cover.

In a sense she is right, without an effective strategy for exposing the benefits, why should people support it?

I would like to see that poll. I don't the 4th poorest state in the US would vote against the Public Option

Sounds like she is in the McCain camp in healthcare..

http://tinyurl.com/l292sd

...Louisiana's senior senator has voiced opposition to a health insurance overhaul that includes a public plan to compete with the private sector, a key component of the outline President Barack Obama presented Congress. She calls a public plan too expensive for the federal budget and says any effort should focus first on containing costs in the current system, before attempting to expand coverage. The chairwoman of the Small Business Subcommittee, Landrieu also has expressed doubts about mandating that employers provide coverage.

Landrieu has since 2007 been co-sponsor of the proposed Wyden-Bennett bill, health care legislation geared in part toward moving the country away from an employment-based insurance system. Generally, the bill would remove income tax exemptions on health benefits but grant generous tax incentives to cover policy premiums. Despite Landrieu's efforts on the Wyden-Bennett bill, most Capitol watchers believe the Senate will act on whatever emerges from separate negotiations among key members of the Finance Committee....snip

She's saying "I believe in and can sell the moral aspect of this, but I need help fighting the misconception that it will Bankrupt the country in the process".

Rubbish. She's using the misconception that it will bankrupt the country in the process to provide cover for walking away from any moral issues raised by pur system for health care provision.

She's in the goddamn tree-house, and is looking for any way to make pulling up the ladder look like anything other than what it is.

Seriously, we've worked too hard and have come too far to give this up to people who think the president is a foreign-born enemy. Look at what we've accomplished in a matter of four years. Our president is a black man named Barack Obama. We've come a long way America. Go make them own this!!

If the fine voters of the Great State of Louisiana want Sen. Jindal to represent them, I am sure they'll elect him

AFAIAC she can vote against health care. She's a Dem in a pretty red state. I get it.

But if she votes against CLOTURE that's something different... it raises the question of how is she any better than a Republican in that seat.

How about this, Mary: Instead of whistling past the graveyard, try actually LEADING.

She's doing the best she can with what she has to work with. Louisiana didn't used to be that bad or maybe its just nostalgia

Anyway, the public option is still the Peoples' Choice, outside of the New Confederacy

US: Health Care (AARP 8/12-13) from Pollster.com All Content by pollster.emily@gmail.com (Emily Swanson) by Emily Swanson

AARP / Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates (D)
8/12-13/09; 1,000 adults, 3.1% margin of error
Mode: Internet
(PSB: release, toplines)

To what degree do you favor or oppose the following health care proposals?

Making insurance available to everyone regardless of their health history
86% Favor, 11% Oppose

Starting a new federal health insurance plan that individuals could purchase if they can't afford private plans offered to them
79% Favor, 18% Oppose

Keeping health insurance mainly a private industry but allowing the government to serve as an industry watchdog to help expand coverage and keep an eye on costs
62% Favor, 32% Oppose

Requiring everyone to either accept employer-provided health insurance or purchase a health insurance policy
45% Favor, 48% Oppose

Do you favor or oppose using the following things to raise money to fund health care improvements?

Limiting the deductions that higher-income people can claim on their income tax returns
72% Favor, 23% Oppose

Taxing employers that do not provide health insurance to their employees
68% Fsavor, 29% Oppose

Taxing employees who receive more than the average amount of health care benefits from their employees
34% Favor, 60% Oppose

Looking for savings in the current Medicare system to pay for health care reform
68% Favor, 27% oppose

It's pathetic how the poorest, worst run states (Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Alabama) are controlled by modern-day Plantation Owners, like Landrieu.

Louisiana: Sharecroppers United Against the Public Option!

Well I'm confused, Senator. I KNOW we don't have a public option at this time. Doesn't that mean we ALREADY HAVE a private, free market approach? So that means we already have extended coverage? We already have low costs? We already have the best of the best? What reform, then are you advocating? Why don't you just come out and say "WE HAVE NO PROBLEM"?

You of all people should for a robust health care reform, including at least a public option. What is wrong with your thinking?

Do the right thing.