The bill doesn’t include a public option—though Cantwell did try, and fail, to attach one via the amendment process—but, Washington’s junior senator says, it’s a “start.”
She added:
To stand here and do nothing is not an option.
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the big news is that the GOP tried to roll Snowe (R-ME) by threatening to remove her committee chair – and she responded that if she left the party they couldn’t stop ANYTHING.
lol. Rush must be furious.
Please tell me they’re not going to run with this gift package to the insurance industry.
ooooh
my nipples are hard just thinking about it
well, since we are looking for mandates that everyone will have to deal with: what happens if you don’t get our manadatory insurance coverage (which we will have to pay for) Are they going to jail us? Drag us on the street and shoot us?
Seriously, anything less than Universal Healthcare is a blow job to the insurance industry.
To stand here and do nothing is not an option.
thats one way to cave in and sell out. congrats to the insurance industry. all is lost.
@5 – the drug companies don’t think so – most market insiders are offloading Big Pharma and Big Insurance stocks today.