Does it matter that Obama campaigned on a public option?

23 December, 2009 MSNBC

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• obama
• public
• option
• campaign
• fixed
• news
• healthcare
• reform

[ClassicFIHD]

He would not have used the work "option" back then because there was no bill where they were choices being offered.

[FixedNewsAlerts]

I was thinking this. He couldn't have specifically said "public option" back in the campaign because the term hadn't been invented yet.

Single-payer he did though...

[ClassicFIHD]

Did yo see where the CBO released a letter this morning on how they double-billed the Medicare Savings? The Healthcare bill WILL not lower the deficit but raise it. Funny how CNN and MSNBC are not covering that.

[FixedNewsAlerts]

CBO has discovered an error in the cost estimate released yesterday related to the longer-term budgetary effects of the managers amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Correcting that error has no impact on the estimated effects of the legislation during the 20102019 period. However, the correction reduces the degree to which the legislation would lower federal deficits in the decade after 2019.

[cocobear33]

what i don't get is why do they feel that everyone should be behind this bill , a bill that they have not read , a bill that they can't explian but yet theyexpect everyone to say oh what a great bill

[sjcpal]

He needs to get to his inner Bush , as much as i hate to say it ..Bush didn't give a shit about the other party or the American people , he did what he did and pushed it through for his Republican buddies

[sjcpal]

I hope he gets your message, there are alot of us behind him,,He has to know , We elected him with a mandate to get healthcare done and done right ...

[Megpie1983]

ClassicFIHD: well if u had accurately read my comment then u would understand that I asked Mr President to have our backs. And if u honestly belive the majority of Americans don't want universal healthcare then ur brain is fried from too much Fox "news"

[ClassicFIHD]

@Megpie1983,

How is he having our back when he's pushing this healthcare bill and there is not one poll that shows the majority of the public wants it?

[Megpie1983]

It all boils down to this...the man was trying. He had all these great ideas and everything. But now he has turned into that lil kid on the playground that everyone picks on and gets shoved in the dirt. Stand up Mr President. We have ur back. No matter what beating ur taking in Washington, we have ur back. Please have ours as well.

[ClassicFIHD]

That's not the one I'm talking about. It has to do with the 300 billion in medicare savings being counted twice. It came out today. I'll give it a day or two to see how real it is but it's easy to google. The democrats are already calling it a lie. But if it came from the CBO this morning how can it be a lie if they say the domocrats are counting it twice?

[ClassicFIHD]

I believe he also said "public run".