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Public Option On Its Death Bed

Liberals panic as president, Sebelius, Conrad downplay expectations

By Kevin Spak| Posted Aug 17, 09 9:20 AM CDT|

(Newser) – The public option is looking sickly, after a weekend in which Obama and Co. seemed to be backing away from it, and liberals aren’t happy about it, Politico reports. “Public Option, Meet Underside of Bus,” read one Daily Kos headline. Over the weekend, President Obama said the proposal was “just one sliver” of the debate, while Kathleen Sebelius said it was “not the essential element” in reform.

Kent Conrad all but called the time of death. “Look, there are not the votes in the United States Senate for the public option,” he said. “There never have been.” By last night the White House was doing damage control, saying Sebelius “misspoke,” and Obama was still committed to the idea. “Nothing has changed.” But liberals aren't persuaded. Rachel Maddow complained that, without a public option, Obama will have “spent a ton of political capital” on something that “won’t do much for the American people.”

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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks at Commercial Maintenance, Inc., in West Hartford, Conn., Monday, Aug 3, 2009. (AP Photo/George Ruhe)

President Barack Obama listens to a question as he speaks about health care during a town hall meeting at Central High School in Grand Junction, Colo. Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

In this Jan. 8, 2009 file photo, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., asks a question during a hearing on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, FILE)

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Look, there are not the votes in the United States Senate for the public option. There never have been. So to continue to chase that rabbit, I think, is just a wasted effort.
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DontLikeYou
Aug 17, 09 9:28 AM CDT

Public option is on it death bed? Thank God and thank the brave people who have stood up at the town hall meetings. The people have the power in this country, not Mr Obama's thugs in government. Reply

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Doctor_Zaius
Aug 17, 09 9:43 AM CDT

At the risk of lowering the debate I have come to the inescapable conclusion that you are a fool.

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doingtherightthing
Aug 17, 09 9:48 AM CDT

amen-bro.......people are looking to reform, not restructure healthcare. I wouldn't trust them in congress especially Obama!

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Sammy
Aug 17, 09 10:31 AM CDT

I am always amazed at the American public's ability to be manipulated by fear and ignorance into believing things that are clearly against their own interest. Without a puiblic option, the vampires in the health care industry (health insurers among them) will continues to suck the $$$ from the pockets of deluded Americans into their own fat coffers. Wake up people!

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DJM420
Aug 17, 09 11:07 AM CDT

thank those 'brave' people with their concealed weapons and brain-washed minds! what a laugh!! get off the FOX NOOSE and get educated to FACTS!

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emptycalm
Aug 17, 09 1:06 PM CDT

So do you have a better idea for someone like me who works full time and doesn't have and can't afford health insurance?

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freethemall
Aug 17, 09 1:07 PM CDT

@Sammy: Exactly! Couldn't have said it any better.

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TRU2TM3
Aug 17, 09 2:21 PM CDT

Once again, Obama does something to try and reunite the U.S. and get bipartisan support on this thing, and the right continues to call him names and portray their outright hate for the man. Future generations will understand this!!!

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JonmarkP
Aug 17, 09 3:11 PM CDT

The people who voted for Obama share a significant portion of the responsibility here. We must turn out in MASSIVE opposition to letting a few loudmouthed dipshit corporate tools derail something that would help to restore the US to being competitive in the marketplace, and a world leader rather than a world follower. Yeah, I know they're mostly retired people (on Medicare, ironically) and unemployed trailer trash who have the time to show up at Town Hall meetings in the middle of the work day. Doesn't matter, we have to be in the streets anyway. Find the time, make the time, be ready to go to jail for a day if necessary. But show up!

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BackAgain
Aug 17, 09 3:41 PM CDT

Well we did it :) Sorry losers but I know you will take it as well as you did the Florida defeat. We will all have to hear you bellyache how you almost got some more free shit.

-4

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Doctor_Zaius
Aug 18, 09 3:25 PM CDT

You haven't done anything yet. And the only loser is you.

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Thinker
Aug 17, 09 9:30 AM CDT

Thank god we don't have to worry about sick poor people taking our tax dollars or the socialized health care from senior citizens! A big THANK YOU to all the lunatics out there who let big business tell them what to do. It's Americans like you that have made us the country we are today. Reply

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thirdherd
Aug 17, 09 9:56 AM CDT

the poor get medicaide. er's don't turn anyone away. We pay into medicare. Yes we are a great country. But some just love to bad mouth this country and the people who don't agree with there big plan for the world.

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UrUndertaker
Aug 17, 09 10:19 AM CDT

@ thirdherd, "the poor get Medicaid" Do you really think that? Do you have the slightest idea what Medicaid actually is since you obviously can't even spell it correctly? As a person who had once to rely upon Medicaid when the VA failed me and I could not find employment after discharge also as a person who now works with the "poor" running a half way house for troubled Vet's let my inform you that Medicaid is a freaking failure in many cases. You can't see any Doctor and most of the time are forced to go to a publicly ran clinic with sub standard Doctors who are on the verge of loosing their license of Malpractice or Immigrant Doctors from the Middle East is not the trend as those Doctors attempt to build a residency....Then we have the medication, much of what is prescribed is not covered so you have to have the Doctor fight it out with the Medicaid Board meanwhile you need the medication yesterday ot next month....Medicaid is a law which was enacted to help the rich sleep better at night so they can think and say they have done their part to help the poor. Medicaid needs massive reform and out of the states hands completely

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ruserious
Aug 17, 09 10:41 AM CDT

UrUndertaker: this is a candid insight into the Medicaid, and I thank you for it. I don't know enough about the systems we currently have, and these are the facts that have to be told by someone who really understands its ins and outs.

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Ladydi
Aug 17, 09 11:01 AM CDT

Been seeing a lot of discussion about the Public Option. One of the key points asked is exactly what is the Public Option? Does anyone know the specifics on it? And can you explain it in "real people" tems? Also, Howard Dean was on Morning Joe discussing this issue. He seems to think that to get the bill out of the Senate the public option needs to be dropped. Then he says, the House bill and Senate bill will go to reconcilation where Public Option can be put back in and they will only need 50 votes to pass reform. Any thoughts on this?

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UrUndertaker
Aug 17, 09 11:03 AM CDT

ruserious, they say you get three strikes in life just like a ball game. I was born blacl and poor, worked hard and got no where. Joined the Military and guess what I got, an IED for breakfast. Spent so much time in the VA I thought it was home. Got out, have to see a Doctor ALL the time to survive, was left with no other option than "Medicaid", here's the deal, while rich white a$$holes scream about watering a damn tree of liberty some of us have watered that damn liberty tree long enough for everyone else. We are stranded between life and death, did you know with Medicaid you can see a dentist but did you know that it takes on average between 6 and 9 months to get in? That is if you have an emergency condition? My face got screwed up, oh well poor boy. I had to have dentures put in, it is hard digesting steel. To have my dentures refitted takes up to 1 year meanwhile I am eating baby food and I am not alone, there are millions of Americans suffering with Medicaid and the upper class thinking "The Poor Have Medicaid" spouting that garbage like it fell out of the Bible, I got news for you. More people both white and black are hitting welfare lines each day, if it doesn't change soon even some of you may wind up there. When that happens your going to discover you are a 2nd class citizen no matter what price you paid for the country and in the end you do not make a damn to some jerk behind a desk. I was called a small angry black man here once for attempting to explain how it feels, my only consultation is a lot of those same bigots who called me names are in the same lines I am in now and to be honest I find no pleasure in that, it breaks my heart to see a sick person, especially a child who have to suffer because of the health care system in this country. I despise the ones pushing to stop the poor from getting the help they need and deserve ,

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TRU2TM3
Aug 17, 09 2:25 PM CDT

@ Ladydi, I saw the same show, as well as when he appeared on the Today show this morning, and I heard nothing that indicated Howard Dean wanted to drop the public option. He states that the only way real reform will come with health care is with the public option. I think you misunderstood what he was saying.

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OmegaMan
Aug 17, 09 2:50 PM CDT

UrUndertaker, you whine to much...... so what, Ive got a messed up back, neck and knee so suck it up...

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Ladydi
Aug 17, 09 3:36 PM CDT

Dear Tru2TM3 - No I did not misunderstand what he was saying. You can go to Morning Joe site and see a video of his comments http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/#32445707 At 3:27 of the video he starts talking about getting the bill out of the Senate

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BackAgain
Aug 18, 09 6:57 AM CDT

Wake up health care is not a right. You in the moron left. Go out and earn it. Your poor because you did not stay in school and work hard. Life is unfair get use to it you whiners. In the past you would have starved by now and we would be rid of you.

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Reader65069154
Aug 17, 09 9:46 AM CDT

RIP, government health care. Reply

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odowd80
Aug 17, 09 9:47 AM CDT

They're just trying to quiet the crazies in the near term. Once there is a bill on the table, we'll find out where the public option is. Don't give up hope yet. Reply

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prowlerzee
Aug 17, 09 3:36 PM CDT

Another Hopium hopped-up moron who thinks that Zerobama is playing some complex game. He showed you what he was and what he thought of you BONEHEADS when he voted to give telecoms immunity for spying on Americans. Go jump off the real bridge to nowhere you useless mouthbreather.

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Fondue
Aug 17, 09 9:57 AM CDT

Either way, Grassley just said on MSNBC that if his committee comes up with a great bill that he likes, if he can't sell it to more than 4 other Repubs, he'll vote against it. Even though moments before that he said "it's not about legacy for him, it's about a good bill". That just screams partisan to me. Reply

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QueenAlli
Aug 17, 09 10:04 AM CDT

Liberals? Panic? that's about as shocking as saying the Far Right is outraged. How many dang times are we going to do this folks? The Obama Admin says something (but actually said nothing different than the last 50 times)-----the media blows it up with over the top false headlines----the Left gets its panties in a bunch, declaring for the 50th time that they are done with Obama and then curl up in a corner to cry------then the Obama Administration, perplexed by the sheer stupidity of it all, has to "clarify" things. But stay tuned next week when Obama does or doesn't say something about the public option. Because it may or may not mean that the public option might or might not be dead. Reply

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DJM420
Aug 17, 09 11:14 AM CDT

ty yet again for summing up my angst and cutting through the bs for some of these people...why is it the 'liberals' are the ones who sound articulate and educated? oh...and caring, like, for other people....PART OF OUR DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST STATE IS THE INCLUSION OF ALL CITIZENS!! THAT IS WHAT AMERICA IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT! making people what til their affliction is so bad they finally suck it up and go to the er, then we all pay for it anyway IS WHOLE-HEARTED-LY ANTI AMERICAN!!

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JonmarkP
Aug 17, 09 11:26 AM CDT

I'm not "panicked" I'm PISSED OFF by the weakness of the Obama Administration and their constant need to compromise with the insurance industry, pharma, Republican naysayers and other enemies of the American people. George Bush rammed all kinds of bad legislation through with a much smaller advantage than Obama has, but Obama can't get even good things passed when over 70% of the population supports them. Christ, no wonder his poll numbers are down. He's a weakling. Reply

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Amber
Aug 17, 09 12:16 PM CDT

I am as well Jon, poissed so badly it makes me cry. Why the hell we have to continue with the haves and have not society with the deciding factor on which side the tracks your born on is beyond me considering the poor outnimber the upper class with a growing population increasing by the hour

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QueenAlli
Aug 17, 09 12:51 PM CDT

The population is NOT voting on legislation, it's Congress that votes and if you don't have the votes, you don't have the votes. Obama couldn't get all the votes so you call him weak. Well I'm calling the Left weak because with all their ads and Dem bashing they couldn't get the gang of six to change their minds.

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prowlerzee
Aug 17, 09 3:38 PM CDT

Hahahahahahaha!!!! LMFAO at the sheer stupidity of the likes of Amber. Told you so, MORON!!! I'm running the water while I brush and using REAMS of paper towels because your generation deserves the hardships coming your sorry ass way.

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prowlerzee
Aug 17, 09 3:39 PM CDT

Ohhhhhhhh, Ammmmber is crying, booooooo-hooo-hoooo, hahahahahahahaha! Fucking idiot in an idiot generation.

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prowlerzee
Aug 17, 09 3:44 PM CDT

Jon, why do you even try? The bridezilla generation could've had another Clinton to clean up after another Bush. You know....INTELLIGENT experienced pols who don't need a constant teleprompter like Uh-uh-uh-bama, not to mention speechwriters like Axelrove and Jon "the groper" Favreau, Just sit back and repeat: "told you morons so."

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MizB
Aug 17, 09 1:08 PM CDT

I posted the following on my blog, MizB VIEWS FROM THE TOWER (http://mizbviewsfromthetower.blogspot.com) today -- which speaks directly and forcefully to this issue: It’s beginning to look like not even a semblance of public health care will be part of the ultimate structure of health care reform. I expect self-serving obstructionism from the Republicans. But I feel betrayed by what I can only view as the cowardice of the Democrats, from the president on down. Before President Dubya took us into the Iraq War for no legitimate or sensible reason, literally multi-millions of people protested in the US and around the world on the same day, but Bush didn’t flinch. He was abandoned by most of the world community and was only able to assemble an international military coalition of the D-List, but he went right ahead. And in the course of his two terms, he managed to set American democracy back by centuries, nearly nullified the Bill of Rights, sunk us into unprecedented debt, and laid the foundation for the global economic crisis by lessening regulations/ restrictions on everything but the American people. And he got away with it. But now, the Democrats can’t manage to zip their pants up in unison, let alone forge ahead with radical, necessary, health care reform – and there are a dozen other equally-enormous issues they haven’t had a chance to run away from yet. They’ve allowed themselves to be defeated by a series of well orchestrated Town Hall protests, a well-funded media scare campaign, the inevitable objections and dirty tricks of Republican colleagues (including MySpace rants by the Wicked Witch of the North), and, I assume, their fear that they won’t be elected again if they dare to try to use the power they won. It bears remembering that it was after the Clinton health care reform efforts failed that American medicine was turned into an HMO system designed by the insurance companies to protect themselves and cut their losses. What do we think they’ll do now that they’ve seen they’re still more powerful than the government and the will of the majority of the people? Why have the Democrats not united and stand their ground? Why have they allowed ignorance, lies, and relatively modest resistance to beat them even before they’ve really begun? Why hasn’t their media campaign been as large and hard-hitting as the opposition’s? Why did the president leave it to Congress to put together that huge, sloppy, unintelligible bill? And if we can’t get the change we were promised now, when will it ever be possible? Barack Obama needs to have an epiphany, an essentially politically suicidal determination to do what has to be done. He should call yet another press conference and say this: “We are the only country in the world where health care is a business instead of a service and I’m going to stop that, because that’s what I was sent here to do. You – politicians and the public alike – have been reciting a string of terms – socialized medicine,... Reply

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Reader65069154
Aug 17, 09 1:45 PM CDT

Call it cowardice, or Democracy. You can't change the fact that politicians are held accountable to voters every election, and most voters don't want this plan. Therefore politicians, in the interest of serving their voters, are obligated to vote against this.

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TRU2TM3
Aug 17, 09 2:30 PM CDT

@reader65069154, I disagree, clearly most voters do want a public or single payer option as indicated decidedly in November. What voters are you referring to may I ask?

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Beasterbunny
Aug 17, 09 1:16 PM CDT

We can't keep blaming fixed news and talk radio for the death of health care reform. Its defeat came mostly from you, the guy who didn't get off his ass and confront the lies that we were being presented! Reply

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Doctor_Zaius
Aug 17, 09 1:31 PM CDT

I called both my senators and representative. I also called all 10 of the Dem turncoats.

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doingtherightthing
Aug 17, 09 2:21 PM CDT

So, you went ape on them monkeyboy.......so sorry you lose! Reply

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JonmarkP
Aug 17, 09 3:03 PM CDT

No, actually YOU lose, and your family and your community - you're just way too stupid to realize it.

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Caps
Aug 17, 09 3:29 PM CDT

Good point there Jonmarl{P. We all lose, but some of the dumbbunnies don't have sense enough to see the insurance companies are getting richer and richer. Reply

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prowlerzee
Aug 17, 09 3:46 PM CDT

Yeah, we all lose thanks to you OBOT BONEHEADS.

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Derni
Aug 17, 09 6:01 PM CDT

No Public Option-then no health care reforem-nothing to control rpices-and the Democrats in the HOUSE will not pass a bill without the Public Aspect since they feel Obama has thrown them under the bus-I agree withthe House members-why do any reform? Just cover anyone without insurance and be sone with it-Obama blew this one and it lookslike he's a one term president if this health bill fails Reply

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SilenceDogood
Aug 18, 09 6:28 AM CDT

Are there not other options to reduce health care cost, Medicare, county hospitals open for public use at no cost, tort reform to reduce health insurance legal cost, caps on CEO and exec salaries? Reply

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BackAgain
Aug 18, 09 6:54 AM CDT

I am always amazed at the American public's ability to be manipulated by smooth talking, half-breed, "I will give you free shit" politicians. Even though it is clearly against America's best interest. Reply

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