News Jul 9, 2009 at 4:00 am

Her Natural Allies Can't Make Sense of Her Refusal to Lead

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There's a rally tomorrow to put some pressure on Maria Cantwell. Come on down and make some noise.

The Public Option Now rally for Health Care is outside Sen. Maria Cantwell's downtown Seattle office. 12:15pm, Thurs 7/9 at the Federal Building, 2nd & Marion.

We will have a few speakers and then we will deliver signed petitions to the Senators offices. The rally should last about 45 minutes. Volunteers can sign up at: http://tinyurl.com/seahcr and http://tinyurl.com/hcrsea

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There's a rally tomorrow to put some pressure on Maria Cantwell. Come on down and make some noise.

The Health Security for America rally is this Thursday, 7/9, starting at 12:15 PM (lunchtime) at the plaza in front of the Federal Building at 915 Second Ave. We will have a few speakers and then we will deliver signed petitions to the Senators offices. The rally should last about 45 minutes.

Volunteers can sign up at: http://tinyurl.com/seahcr and http://tinyurl.com/hcrsea
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"Experts say"?? Who are these phantom experts?
The Stranger would howl if one of the dailies dropped in a completely unsourced "experts say" to back up one of their conclusions.
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I propose we levy a "fat tax" on every cupcake to fund the public option! Cupcakes kill. Eliminate the cupcakes, eliminate the fat asses, eliminate the health care problem!
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I'm one of those who needs the public option. As in, life-or-death situation.

As a 18-24 male, I can't get affordable insurance because my peers are idiots. As a recent college grad with little-to-no experience, I can't find a job. To make it all worse, I have a medical condition that will slowly kill me if I don't have, you guessed it: extremely expensive medication.

I have three months of my medicine left. My options are few: 1) Bankrupt my parents, 2) Take cheaper but more dangerous medication, or 3) Canada.
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Cantwell isn't being specific. Neither are you, Eli.

Your piece is just a bunch of vague garbage; you mention "options" without specifically describing what they are and how they would address the essential problem of healthcare financing.

If you don't understand the issues, don't pop off about any player not doing this or that.

No support here for Cantwell--she's been vague and hasn't really engaged on the issues--but your anemic "reporting" is not any better at all; you're just pandering to the "cover and pay for everything" crowd who would bankrupt us.

How about defining what a "coop" is? Betcha can't do it, because you don't know, and don't have a clue how it would fit into an overall system.
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I assume the first photo is Eli Sanders and the second
is Maria Cantwell. Am I right? Why do the editors post
photos of people on this site and not explain who they are?
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Two years ago, the cost of providing health insurance to her employees jumped by 40 percent. In a normal year, it climbs by at least 20 percent.

"I feel like I'm a hostage to private insurance," she said. "It's not sustainable for me to charge a 20 percent to 40 percent increase per year on my products.


Cupcake Royal's math doesn't add up.

A 20-40% increase in the costs of health insurance, while egregious, would not translate into a 20-40% increase in the cost of their products.

If they are grossing "several" million dollars (let's say 3 million) and health insurance is $120,000, then health insurance makes up 4% of their total gross expenses. A 20-40% increase in that segment would translate to a need to increase total gross revenue by 0.8% to 1.6% to cover the increased costs in health insurance. That is, a $5.00 cupcake would need to rise in price between 4 and 8 cents.

That said, I applaud the cupcake and ice cream sectors' activism for health insurance, I sincerely do.
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Maria Cantwell is Sexy and that's all the politics I need to support her! A life in public office is never easy when Angelina Jolie is insanely jealous of you? I'm sure Maria will move on to being a pop star and a movie actress soon enough
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I think a primary challenge is a certainty. Is she accepting donations from the health insurance industry?

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