Robust Public Option Bill to Senate
Oct
27
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10/27/2009 9:56 AM
Harry Reid is sending a health care reform bill to the senate said to include "robust" public option. As this blog has maintained, no "Public Option" bill is sufficiently robust to wipe Reid's bottom. The logic underlying that is two-fold, one, there's not enough money to fund the PO due to the subsidies now provided to the insurance industry under the "Advantage" aegis, and two, there will be enough fine print to ensure that the PO will suffer early programmed cell death. It's a scam, menwomen, intended to keep single payer off the table. Off the table, hell, in the outhouse.
Meanwhile that gifted seer and writer Gary Younge has a column in The Nation for October 26 titled Obama and the Decline of White America that will scare the PO out of you. Paraphrased, his explanation is that this Fall's outbreak of ugliness is the "unleashing of a panic" over loss of White supremacy. Younge has consistently displayed the ability to see behind the obvious and, boy, does he ever do it this time.