The CBO scores the public option...

I just KNOW we can count on Max to do the right thing.... (0.00 / 0)

I love reading this sort of thing from Max:

He also said a majority of the senators on the Finance Committee do not favor a "pure public option," which is the government-run insurance plan that would compete with private insurers.

They'd like to find a way to offer an alternative plan that somehow is run by the private sector or a private entity, such as a nonprofit cooperative, he said.

Of course, if it was up to Max by himself I'm sure he'd represent the overwhelming will of his constituents, which is to include a strong public option, but the problem is the majority of the rest of the committee....

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by: Duncan Idaho @ Sat Jul 11, 2009 at 15:12:20 PM UTC

And where is the conservative media (0.00 / 0)

covering this piece of news? Nowhere. They'd much rather be covering a CBO report that decries the PO as being too expensive.

Of course the rightwing of the Senate--from Baucus on over--will be unfazed.

This sort of news will test the theory that reform is just a smokescreen for those Senators and Congresspeople that want to continue on with the status quo. Pour more tax dollars into the private sector as inefficiently as possible to create the illusion of doing something--which they are: making sure their campaign contributions keep on keepin' on from their medical and insurance industry puppeteers, and that they maintain their positions of power.

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by: JC @ Sat Jul 11, 2009 at 17:44:56 PM UTC

Bernie Sanders (4.00 / 1)

says we would save $400 billion a year in administrative costs with a single payer system...

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/...

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by: big sage @ Sat Jul 11, 2009 at 19:41:16 PM UTC

What? (0.00 / 0)

...and it would actually raise revenue?

Is "saving" the same as raising revenue now?  

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by: Dave Budge @ Sun Jul 12, 2009 at 05:44:15 AM UTC

It's time. AX MAX (4.00 / 1)

ABM, Anybody But Max, is my new mantra.  I'm done with Mini Baucus.  He is NOT "montana's senator".  He is industry's senator, pure and simple.  When even Republican state senator and ex-govenor candidate Bob Brown comes out in support of single payer and Mini can't, you just KNOW it's time to ax this dufus sumbitch.  And let's face it.  Baucus is a dufus, but at least he was OUR dufus.  That's no longer good enough.  I  will  never vote for dufus boy again.  Hell, I didn't last time.  I voted for Kelleher.

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by: Larry Kralj, Environmental Rangers! @ Sun Jul 12, 2009 at 14:30:18 PM UTC