Landrieu Says The Public Option Is Popular Because ‘Everybody Wants Free Health Care’
Landrieu Says The Public Option Is Popular Because ‘Everybody Wants Free Health Care’
One of the most ardent opponents of including a new public health insurance plan in health reform legislation has been Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), who in the past has said that she opposes a public option because it would “[undermine] the essence of [Senate] efforts to create a real market-based private sector model.”
Yesterday, MSNBC host host Tamron Hall confronted Landrieu over her opposition to the public option in light of its enormous popularity across the country. Landrieu responded to Hall’s questioning by saying that the reason most people want a public option is because “everybody wants free health care”:
HALL: Do you believe in the polling that says the American people want a public option? Do you believe in that desire from the folks that you and all of the others represent who say that they would like a public option to help offset these costs?
LANDRIEU: I think when people hear “public option” they hear “free health care.” Everybody wants free health care. Everybody wants health care they don’t have to pay for. The problem is, is that we in governments and business have to pick up the tab and as individuals. So I’m not at all surprised that the public option’s been sold as free health care. But there is no free lunch.
Watch it:
Of course, the public option hasn’t been crafted as “free health care.” As the President explained during his health care speech last month, the public option as it is being constructed in Congress will “have to be self-sufficient and rely on the premiums it collects.” What likely makes the public option so popular, however, is the fact that it won’t have to worry about, as the President also explained, “profits and excessive administrative costs and executive salaries,” which would make it reliable and a “good deal for consumers.”
As the organization Change Congress notes, Landrieu has received more than $1.6 million from health and insurance interests in recent years. While she continues to claim that Americans want a public option only because they’re misinformed, her constituents would benefit tremendously from the choice of a public plan. As of 2008, nearly one in five Louisianans were uninsured.
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Everyone wants free health care.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:54 amI’m guessing Mary has it.
Is Senator Mary Landrieu really that dumb? Or is she just in the Health Insurance Industry’s pocket?
Pretty easy to figure this one out.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:55 amGee, she may want to go to the free clinte thats going to happen. and i bet she see lots more working poor trying to get medical attention then she see people who are looking for free medical attention. I know i want to contact a sickness so i can have free health care yuppers. She knows America well we are all lazy free loaders.
Shaking my head!!!!!!
October 15th, 2009 at 9:56 amANOTHER suck democrat.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:57 amEverybody wants health care they don’t have to pay for. The problem is, is that we in governments and business have to pick up the tab and as individuals.
I guess she doesn’t count our tax dollars as a contribution. Nope, we just a bunch of freeloaders to the esteemed senator.
The only thing truly free in this debate is the free use of lies to scare the American people away from the public option.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:57 amBut there is no free lunch.
Unless you’re a member of the Senate.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:58 amYES WE DO!!! SO WHAT!!!
If the rest of the friggin industrial world can figure out how to do it within the confines of the tax code, what is the friggin problem here (thumbs nose at blue cross).
October 15th, 2009 at 9:59 amGee, isn’t that the same free health care she has at the expense of taxpayers like me? Wow and to think that she represents Louisiana where there are many who need the public option.
http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com
October 15th, 2009 at 10:03 amSeriously …………..Is this one of the best 100 people in the entire US ?
If it is , we’re in a shitload of trouble . Bad enough there are Republicans around ; we certainly don’t need anyone imitating them……..
October 15th, 2009 at 10:03 amMust pay a lot to allow yourself to lie straight faced with the insurance industry up your ass.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:05 amWe’re not asking for anything more than what you have for healthcare Senator Landrieu.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:09 amWhat do you call it when someone pays a public official to lie? I need a word for an elected official that accepts bribes from corporations. Traitor is close, but not completely descriptive. I bet the Germans have a word for it. (The German language has a lot of words that do not have English equivalents.)
October 15th, 2009 at 10:10 amWith ignorant Democrat representatives like her, who needs gNOpigs?
October 15th, 2009 at 10:10 am“Stupid is as stupid does.”…Forrest Gump
October 15th, 2009 at 10:10 amJust wondering when is Senator Landrieu going to trade that D after her name in for a R?
October 15th, 2009 at 10:11 amI want the health care SHE has.
Is that free?
October 15th, 2009 at 10:11 amHeh. With “Democrats” like her – who needs Republicans?
October 15th, 2009 at 10:15 amLevi the Oracle says:
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What do you call it when someone pays a public official to lie? I need a word for an elected official that accepts bribes from corporations. Traitor is close, but not completely descriptive. I bet the Germans have a word for it. (The German language has a lot of words that do not have English equivalents.)
October 15th, 2009 at 10:10 am
I don’t recall a single word for the situation you’re describing , but it is peddling influence , a galling breach of the public trust , and a conflict of interest that is unmatched ………….
October 15th, 2009 at 10:15 amTamron Hall missed the follow-up question: “How much do you pay for your health insurance, Senator?”
“There’s no free lunch, but you can fight each other over the crumbs from my free banquet.”
October 15th, 2009 at 10:16 amI will only speak for myself. Sen. I’m not wanting free healthcare. I only want healthcare that’s free of a for profit motive. I want a doctor, not a bean counter in an insurance company, deciding the best care for me and my family. I don’t want it to be free, I want it to be fair.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:18 amA word for someone who accepts bribes from corporations? How about “K-streetwalker”?
October 15th, 2009 at 10:19 amA word for someone who accepts bribes from corporations? Unfortunately, it would be all to often, politician.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:22 amLANDRIEU: I think when people hear “public option” they hear “free health care.” Everybody wants free health care. Everybody wants health care they don’t have to pay for.
Translation:
Landrieu (R*) Louisiana:
I have my free healthcare and I don’t want anyone else to have it. Fcuk you!!
*denotes Pretend Democrat.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:22 amIt seems that there is no single word in English strong enough to describe accepting bribe money while in the public trust.
On DKOS, they say their purpose is to elect more and better Democrats. I think in this case we can find a better Democrat then Sen. Mary Landrieu.
I am so frustrated that she can commit this type of crime and not get punished for it. I really wish I lived in a nation governed by the rule of law. All corporate campaign contributions must be banned if we are going to remain a viable Democracy.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:23 amDo not give any donations to any organization connected to the Democratic Party because Landrieu will get some of the money when she runs for re-election. I’m donating to the congresspersons who support the progressive agenda on their web sites or through ActBlue. The conservadems can forget about receiving any donation from me. The only way to get the attention of many of these pompous @$$e$ is by donating or withholding donations to their campaign chests. I’m doing the latter. If we all do it, they’ll notice it, eventually.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:24 am“Landrieu has received more than $1.6 million from health and insurance interests in recent years.”
Sounds like a boatload of free lunches to me. And whatever else you’ve got.
Gimme, gimme, gimme. But you…out there. F**k you. Ha-Ha.
These people suck.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:26 amI just hope we don’t end up with the horrible Massachusetts Model nationwide.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:27 amLet’s all pledge to help find a support a progressive challenger to Landrieu in her next primary.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:29 amThe federal gov’t pays up to 75% of each member of Congress’s health insurance policy. Sounds like a good deal considering base salary for Congress is $174,000/yr.
This applies to everyone in Congress except Senator Brown(D-OH) who refuses to accept this until all Americans have a similar oppotunity.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:31 amQuite frankly, the arrogance of these elected officials is astounding. I am willing to bet she will not give up her FREE tax payer provided public option health insurance.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:32 amDINO in name only,she is more to the right than see really knows herself with this type of fear mongering……
October 15th, 2009 at 10:33 ammmmmm… essence of [Senate]…
“Smell the Power”
October 15th, 2009 at 10:33 amI went to Landrieu’s website and e-mailed the following:
I want you to know that you think wrong. I want a public option that I can pay for with premiums as an alternative to private health insurance. I lost my job 16 months ago and my health insurance has been with COBRA, which I pay for. To convert to an individual policy, I will have to pay twice the premium even though my health status has actually improved. If I want coverage, which I do, I have no real choice but to go with a private insurer who is free to charge whatever it wants.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:34 amThis ‘free’ crap is worse than the death panels, Nazi, Soviet and all of the other Republican scare tactics. We don’t have ‘free’ police, fire, highways, water and sewage treatment, schools, etc. We pay for them with our taxes.
Right now we are paying private fro-profit companies for lousy service so they can post obscene profits. I would gladly see the money I pay in insurance premiums go to the government for a decent health care plan just as I pay into SS, Medicare and Medicaid.
So, honey, the only thing free around here is your mouth. Too bad its attached to your wallet and not your brain.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:36 amShe has free friggin Health Care doesn’t she? She should have resigned after Katrina. I find it insulting she had the Balls to state that. My husband and I shell out 780.00 a month and they don’t cover sh*t. Hey Landrieu! I don’t exspect free Health Care! Only coverage that is fair. Screw You!
October 15th, 2009 at 10:38 amginslinger, anyone can make a youtube and submit it. I didn’t even look at it because you posted it.
Flagged for spamming.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:40 amOn June 9, 2009 I sent this bit of blue doggerel to Senator Mary Landrieu’s e-mail:
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
Advancing the lobbyists cause,
In the hope that more of their nickels and dimes
Will be clutched in a Blue Dog’s paws.
Mary, Mary, it’s getting quite scary.
Can you give me an estimate,
Of what you collect as it is amortized
Over your constituents’ insurmountable debt?
Mary, Mary, how many will we bury
To raise your campaign dough?
Shall we ever allow the blood to run
To ensure your dirty cash flow?
Mary, Mary, at your next primary,
The folks in Louisiana will float
A campaign for an honest, upstanding opponent
Who understands who should benefit from his vote.
Mary, Mary, no reason to tarry
October 15th, 2009 at 10:40 amClean your desk as soon as you are able,
And reap every one of the bitter rewards
For having your own interests alone on the table.
It’s statements like that, that tend to diminish my respect for the State of Louisiana.
And she’s still considered “progressive” by her state’s standards. (Jindal, Vitter, Tauzin, Scalise)
Don’t really care if she votes for the final bill. I don’t think she’d filabuster if the public option appears, though. She might threaten and try to extort favours from the leadership, but in the end, I dont think she’d filabuster.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:40 amLandrieu is just another Dem trying to obstruct. I hope someone challenges her in the primaries and uses these statements against her. She strikes me as a person who thinks she is immune from being voted out of office. It is time to prove otherwise.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:40 ampags@40, She should go. I think she should have resigned after Katrina, also Mayor Nagin. They ALL dropped the ball. It was a complete failure on everybodys part.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:44 amFree health care? Who says the public option means free health care?
Certainly not President Obama. He’s been very careful to say that those who choose a public option would pay premiums for this insurance, same as any other insurance. And only those who cannot afford to pay would be subsidized.
Those in Congress who are fighting for a public option have never tried to sell it as “free”, either.
In fact, the only people who use the terms “public option” and “free” together are Republicans and others who are fighting very hard to kill health care reform. The “public option = free health care” is a straw man set up for the wingnuts to claim that A) this is what the liberals are saying, and B) the liberals are lying to you.
And now we see Landrieu is performing the exact same song and dance. Sad. Not to mention infuriating.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:44 amThat is one cold bytche. It’s not up to her, the insurance companies or teabaggers to come between my doctor and my health.
Let the people suffer and die because there aren’t any free rides.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:45 amP.D. says:
Huey Long is turning over in his grave.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:46 amMore and Better Democrats:
http://www.actblue.com/directory/query
October 15th, 2009 at 10:50 amginslinger says:
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Oh come on Mary, you don’t really think Obama’s constituents really want free g’vmint handouts do you?
October 15th, 2009 at 10:38 am
You mean like tax cuts for the wealthy and corporate welfare , which are both staples of the horseshit GOP ……?
October 15th, 2009 at 10:52 amThis is outrageous. No one but liars and idiots are calling the proposed public option free health care. Shame on her. I hope Landrieu is challenged in the next primary. She deserves to lose her job in Congress for this one.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:56 amginslinger says:
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Oh come on Mary, you don’t really think Obama’s constituents really want free g’vmint handouts do you?
Sure, every body knows that the guvmint handouts are reserved for Wall Street plutocrats!
October 15th, 2009 at 10:57 amEveryone BUT the GOP, knows that nothing in life is free.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:58 amI think all Americans really want and affordable care and coverage. What we have now is a FEW insurance companies CONTROLLING all our lives in the greedy quest for a profit.
Our government is actually quite good at pushing paper around, billing, sending out checks. Medicare, Social Security, and the Internal Revenue Service are all very efficient organizations. When you remove the profit motive from these kinds of bureaucracies they are able to operate very efficiently. This same skill can be brought to bear against the “public option”.
There’s nothing stopping private enterprise from working with the same efficiency except, I believe, the capacity for human greed. When offered the choice between passing savings back along to the customers or pumping up executive compensation, the latter seems to win out every time.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:00 amHer arrogance is staggering. She needs to be replaced in the primaries.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:03 amStupid cow…
Is there a progressive opponent challenging her in the next election?
Where do we send money?
October 15th, 2009 at 11:03 amGO HERE to tell her to stop with the lies and get on the correct side of the health care issues:
http://landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
October 15th, 2009 at 11:04 amFrom the above article:
We can get our voices back ONLY by removing the legal bribery (donations) to OUR elected officials.
Corporations should not be allowed in the process. They can’t vote so they should not be allowed to bribe OUR elected officials.
If companies want to change policy they should take their issue before the people and not OUR representatives.
Outlaw all lobbyist.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:06 amSo let me get this straight…
when some polls showed pubklic support for health care reform was waning, the Right and its insurance-industry sponsors claimed that was an indication that the President was pursuing “tyranny”.
Now when the public finally begins to understand what “the public option” means, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-Insurance industry) dismisses that public support as frivolous.
Have I got that about right?
October 15th, 2009 at 11:07 amI support ActBlue and what it’s trying to accomplish and I have always used the Primaries to try to push the party to the left with my vote, but we have to acknowledge something here that is an unfortunate part of the system.
In states with electorates like Louisiana, we’re almost always going to get either bad Democrats or Republicans. A real progressive probably can’t even get a phone call returned in a place like Louisiana. The key with Landrieu is will she vote for cloture. Reid will strip her of any committee assignments if she supports filibusters so I expect her to not cooperate with Republicans on filibusters. All we really need is for her to get out of the way when the real vote happens.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:10 amAnd this woman calls herself a democrat?
October 15th, 2009 at 11:19 amMary, dear, people want health insurance they can afford and not have to give up eating to pay for. The poor,low income and uninsured families should be assisted in procuring healthcare. A healthier nation produces better workers and better productivity a win win for all. I’m so sorry your focus is all about you rather than the folks that you represent. I’m not surprised though, Louisiana is known and has the history of being one of the most corrupt states in the United States.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:23 amevangenital says:
Is there a progressive opponent challenging her in the next election?
That is true, but since she was re-elected last year Louisiana needs to first concentrate on getting rid of Senator Vitter in 2010 and Gov Jindal if he runs for re-election in 2011.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:24 amMaybe loadofdoo, people want live and not suffer, you stupid fool.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:27 amIf this was a Christian nation based on Christian values, we would have had ‘free’, universal health care a long time ago.
‘Pro-life’? HA!
October 15th, 2009 at 11:29 amLANDRIEU (R): I think when people hear “public option” they hear “free health care.” Everybody wants free health care. Everybody wants health care they don’t have to pay for. The problem is, is that we in governments and business have to pick up the tab and as individuals. So I’m not at all surprised that the public option’s been sold as free health care. But there is no free lunch.
YOU LIE!!
October 15th, 2009 at 11:30 amdixie blood, while I agree with you that corporate donations to campaigns is a huge problem in getting true representation of the people, I disagree that we should get rid of all lobbyists. Lobbyists from unions, trade organizations, and grassroots organizations can help inform and persuade politicians in a positive manner IF the money is taken out of the equation.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:34 amThis is all a matter of priorities. If you are taking your marching orders from corporations ‘free’ applies to wars and bailouts. If we waste money on free healthcare, we won’t have enough for free warfare.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:41 amnoseeum says:
Everyone wants free health care.
I’m guessing Mary has it.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Not free, but cheap, and comprehensive. Costs her about $1k/yr.
I don’t want ‘free’ health care. I want single-payer, tax-funded, cradle-to-grave care…
October 15th, 2009 at 11:44 amWe don’t want free insurance,
October 15th, 2009 at 11:46 amwe want non-profit insurance.
We want insurance for all.
har5125 says:
evangenital says:
Is there a progressive opponent challenging her in the next election?
That is true, but since she was re-elected last year Louisiana needs to first concentrate on getting rid of Senator Vitter in 2010 and Gov Jindal if he runs for re-election in 2011.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:24 am
the last progressive left louisiana in about 1995…
October 15th, 2009 at 11:47 amWhat people really want is hassle-free health-care.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:48 amThe problem is, is that we in governments and business have to pick up the tab and as individuals Say WHAT?? Mary Landrieu?!! Just who is picking up your tab, with your government-run health care paid for by the taxpayers? I am sure that most of the people still living in NOLA would enjoy the same kind of health care that you as a member of Congress have, given everything they have gone through trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina and all….and you with your “sugar daddy” health industry “giveaways” that you have taken is really showing who you truly care about……
October 15th, 2009 at 11:49 amBTW, and OT: Neall Thomas Walsh, on the radio now, is full of shit…
October 15th, 2009 at 11:49 amI see Tracist was banned and has decided to start back at the top of the order.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:55 am@ 69, Tracy-1 says: Does anyone actually believe that will happen?
October 15th, 2009 at 11:49 am
If there is any “public option,” it will; be tun like the Post Office, burdened with restrictions, and requirements that cripple it, to make the private option (FedEx, UPS, etc) more appealing…
We are well and truly PHUCQUE by the Pope of Hope and his pals in the oiligocracy…
October 15th, 2009 at 11:56 amIt really is too bad that Tamara did not follow up and point out that the public option would not be “free” since we would pay for it with our tax dollars and most would also pay a premium.
Maybe the Sen. has been paying her less then $100 a month premium for so long that she has forgotten that the reason many Americans do not have health insurance is because they can’t get into the Federal Employees insurance exchange.
(I’m confused why we can’t just open that up to the American citizens since we are already paying for it.)
October 15th, 2009 at 11:57 amThe primary reason the public option is wildly popular is because of the hope it holds for cost containment as a result of injecting competition into the equation on insurance coverage. Just as a public option will not kill grandma, it will not be a free government handout. Such talk is shameful.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:11 pmI agree to comment #74. A ) why can’t we have the same cost for health care as all government employees ?
or B) how about a .10 tax on EVERYTHING we buy from candy to hardware. This tax goes ONLY for healthcare cost. Face it there are people who could afford premiums but choose not to until they are sick and need care and the rest of us end up paying. And we need regulations for cost for hospitals and insurance companies. Profit yes, robbery no !
October 15th, 2009 at 12:14 pmGrassly, the idiot, says Feds cannot force people to buy insurance, hello, what about auto insurance and property insurance ?
October 15th, 2009 at 12:16 pm# 58 It is not the really poor that are suffering, they have Medicaid and hospitals have to give out some free care to qualify for tax reductions.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:20 pmIt is our two income working families that are being forced out of the market. A healthy family of four that has to pay over $700 a month for health insurance on top of mortgage, daycare. It is totally outrageous.
It’s nice to hear a Democrat that makes sense.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:21 pmTalk about cold and arrogrant.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pm.
WHY DON’T AMERICANS DESERVE AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE?
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October 15th, 2009 at 12:33 pmLandrieu does little to hide that she is in insurance industry pocket. What a scummy misrepresentation of a public insurance oprtion for coverage.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:39 pmSen. Landrieu didn’t have any problems with picking up the $750 Billion tab to save banks and wealthy stockholders.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:48 pmUnfortunately Hall didn’t ask Landrieu this question:
“Polls have shown that the people in your state overwhelmingly support a Public Option. How can you say you are representing your constituents by opposing a Public option?”
I hope that the people in LA show Landrieu exactly what they think of her in her next election. She does not deserve to be a Senator.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:50 pmShe is a Rethug!
Health Care is a right in most countries.
Making money on Health Care is sinful and so is this b*tch.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:56 pmWith term limits less money would have to raised for the next term = less money to take from the lobbyist. For the President as well.
October 15th, 2009 at 1:16 pmTracy-1 says:
#72
“I see Tracist was banned and has decided to start back at the top of the order.”
I am assuming you weren’t one of the cowards that led that effort considering TP blatant double standard here.
Blatant double standard? LOL! A wing nut troll coming from wing nut sites that ban all liberals on site? You’re a loon! ;)
October 15th, 2009 at 1:24 pmTracy-1 says:
#73
“If there is any “public option,” it will”
You actually think that even with a public option it won’t have to be heavily subsidized by other tax dollars the way Medicare already is? That too funny.
Medicare is paid for specifically through a general payroll tax. It’s a different program with a different income source. Idiot much? What’s too funny is an ignorant rube like believing you have anything worthwhile to add to any discussion! LOL! ;)
October 15th, 2009 at 1:25 pmYou were ultimately banned because you repeatedly called a female blogger the “C word”.
October 15th, 2009 at 1:32 pmWhy don’t you grow up and admit you were wrong, and for the first time in your life take personal responsibility for your actions?
Reggie says:
You were ultimately banned because you repeatedly called a female blogger the “C word”.
Why don’t you grow up and admit you were wrong, and for the first time in your life take personal responsibility for your actions?
If Tracist were capable of personal responsibility and adult behavior – she wouldn’t be a Republican in the first place! ;)
October 15th, 2009 at 1:37 pmMary not remember the King Fish?
October 15th, 2009 at 1:55 pm“Landrieu Says The Public Option Is Popular Because ‘Everybody Wants Free Health Care’”
Landrieu must think that all of the American people are that dumb. And where in the word “public option” defines free healthcare???? Again, another DINO trying to confuse the public with the healthcare reform bill and feed into the crazies in the media.
October 15th, 2009 at 1:59 pmMary Landrieu is the only person in this post with free health care, and it’s only free in the sense that she doesn’t pay for any of it. If she makes an individual contribution to her insurance, that is deducted from her Senatorial salary, which comes out of the taxpayer’s pocket. Ditto for her ‘employer’ contribution; tax dollars at work again. So who’s on the ‘free health care’ bandwagon, Mary?
Everyone else understands that it has to be paid for, either directly or through taxation.
Well, there may be a few idiot trolls that think ‘free health care’ is being sold somewhere to get people to sign up on one side or the other. I have a nice bridge in NYC that has been maintained at the public expense which the city has declared surplus that I’d like to have them buy a share in.
October 15th, 2009 at 1:59 pmSorry to disagree with you but you cannot pick and choose who gets to lobby on a level playing field. All of the money and influence must be removed.
It’s about the citizens and not special voices or special money from anywhere. It’s a hard thing to accept but it must be done. It would take out progressive voices as well as corporate voices.
The only voice heard should be the voice of the American people.
October 15th, 2009 at 2:25 pmHopefully, when health reform passes, we can have Mary’s mouth sewn shut and brain transplanted.
October 15th, 2009 at 2:27 pmI hope the free health clinics that Keith Olbermann is pushing for Arkansas and New Orleans will wake up some who deny affordable healthcare is needed in this country.
Must be wonderful to live in a country without fear of bankruptcy from a medical issue in your life. My husband and I worry every day if our health insurance is good enough should we experience a serious illness.
October 15th, 2009 at 2:49 pmPerhaps Tracy-1 you should debate on another website closer to your point of view since you are so angry with this one. We cannot change your tunnel, selfish mind and you cannot change our vision of what is good for ALL America.
October 15th, 2009 at 2:53 pmSen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) says, “I’m not at all surprised that the public option’s been sold as free health care. But there is no free lunch.”
What about the $3 trillion taxpayer funded bailout (free lunch) that you just gave to the greedy Wall Street Bankers? That would have paid for 30 years of “free health care” for everyone in America.
October 15th, 2009 at 2:58 pmThanks for giving the GOP their talking point for the next few weeks…ugh…never thought it would be a “Democratic” senator doing so…
October 15th, 2009 at 3:02 pmOur vile little troll Tracy did not come here to debate, he is a mercenary sent here to disrupt civil discourse and derail the thread.
October 15th, 2009 at 3:34 pmSo when are you going to give up your FREE health coverage paid by the taxpayers Senator?
October 15th, 2009 at 4:57 pmSelfish? You are going to have to provide some evidence and saying that just because I don’t want irresponsible government spending is not a good example.
Where you come up looking stupid is that you have to prove that it’s “irresponsible spending.”
You haven’t.
What makes you the biggest idiot is that saving lives shouldn’t have a price tag on it.
I loath willingly idiots.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:42 pmWhen only 1% of the population control most of the wealth in a society the society cannot grow. Tracy 1 where was your voice during the last 8 years of deregulation bringing down America’s economy and an illegal war killing over 4000 and wounding 30,000 that will need lifetime care ?
Selfish is caring nothing about the welfare of one’s neighbor you have demonstrated that with your comments.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:28 pm‘Everybody Wants Free Health Care’
There is no FREE lunch.
October 15th, 2009 at 7:31 pmTracy,
The fascist Republican Party just administered the greatest redistribution of wealth in world history. The American middle class just gave up all its savings so the top 2% could get even richer.
You wingnuts can’t complain about any redistribution of wealth, because it is hypocritical.
October 15th, 2009 at 7:32 pmHey Mary, Know This:
October 20th, 2009 at 12:50 pmIf you go against the American People and Democratic Party on the Public Option, You Are Out in Your Next Primary Season.
Don’t Shrug This Off. You’re out.
That is All.
Health care reform will be done by reconciliation. gögüs küçültme
October 21st, 2009 at 5:48 am