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by: One Citizen
President Obama has finally started twisting some arms to get his health care reform bill passed.
Whether or not the public option will be included is still a big question. Apparently there are plenty of Democrats who still don't understand that Scott Brown won Massachusetts because voters don't like their universal health care without the public option.
Research 2000 poll(ed) voters immediately after the Election ended: Even Scott Brown voters want Democrats to be bolder and they want healthcare reform that includes a public option.
You read that right. By a margin of three-to-two, former Obama voters who voted for Republican Scott Brown yesterday said the Senate healthcare bill "doesn't go far enough." Six-to-one Obama voters who stayed home agreed. And to top it off, 80% of all voters still want the choice of a public option in the bill.
The message is clear, there is only one way out of this mess if Democrats want to win in 2010. It's time to pass healthcare with 51 votes in the Senate using the budget reconciliation process. And it must include the most popular piece of bold reform: the choice of a public option. source (bold italics added)
Having said that, here's a graph that illustrates that there is hope for change without the public option.
The problem with the CBO figures, as as Republicans are quick to point out, is that the CBO numbers for Obamacare are accurate if the data provided to them is followed to the "T". I think we can all agree that health care providers will figure out ways to wangle around federal regs pretty quickly.
That's exactly why the competition of a public option matters so much. It's the real change America voted for. |
