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Faryn Balyncd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 09:53 PM
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24. Another significant danger is that the corporatists may strip out the public option, leaving a plan


that is essentially an unaffordable corporate give-away that still leaves Americans without affordable healthcare.

We will never be able to afford comprehensive healthcare for all Americans, until we take on the insurance companies.

I am in total agreement with your 2nd paragraph, but with significant numbers of Democratic Senators lining up with the insurance companies (Ben Nelson, Chuck Schumer, Arlen Spector, even Ron Wyden), and Zeke Emanuel pushing (as a "White House adviser") a plan the not only has no public option, but privatizes Medicare, we are in for the fight of our lives if we are to get a plan that preserves the public option that Obama supports and promised.



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