TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: Wasted Effort

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: From the start of the health care reform debate President Obama has insisted that creating a government-provided "public option" to compete with private insurance companies is critical to comprehensive reform. But is the administration now hinting that it is willing to forsake such an option in the interest of getting a bill passed? We investigate in today's Sunday Show Roundup.

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[mmmtoblerone]

I know Rahm hates Howard Dean, but Dean does so much better at explaining all this than Sebelius or anyone else up there does that it's pitiful.

[RightWingTerrorist]

This sounds fishy.

[WadeBlazingame34]

MrHelldogger: I like you, you're a lot of fun.

[Magurufukuru]

Another victory for the free market!

[getplaning]

The Libertarian heart apparently does not include health care. Ron Paul's own campaign manager died of pneumonia because he lacked health coverage. He left his family with $400,000 in medical bills. Under a single payer health system, he might have gotten care that would have kept him in better health, or at least treatment that would have prevented him from dying of pneumonia and bankrupting his family.

[Magurufukuru]

No, he's going to cave, and we're likely going to get a bill that forces people to have insurance and leave it at that, and the entire country will be more screwed than it is now.

[3star2nr]

Disagree this is the smae man who supported single payer He isnt conservative he wants this, otherwise why would he waste everyones time

He is just caving to political pressure from the insurance companies. we are talking about a billion dollar industry, and they are flexing their muscles to kill this bill.

The biggest problem hes facing is corruption within his own party

Thats why he should send the bill with public option, because it will show up the corrupt ones s and we can vote them out

[Magurufukuru]

To hell with the blue dogs and the republicans. We need a constitutional convention to get something done. Ask your state legislators to appy to congress to start one, it's the only way we're going to keep the insurance industry's money out of this. They can afford to buy off 485 people, but can they afford to buy 35 states legislatures who actually have to live among the citizens of their states and aren't subject to gerrymandering that makes them impervious to removal?

[Magurufukuru]

Obama doesn't want to. I knew back in 2007 that the son of a bitch was too conservative for me, I just didn't know how much until now, with him honoring Ronald Reagan and staying mute and ineffectual on the most important change to US law in 80 years.

[3star2nr]

He should have done that from day 1

Bring the bill to the floor with the public option, let the blue dogs vote against it there, call there bluff

Force their hand. If they did they would go down as the "democrats" who voted against universal healthcare, one of the major platforms of the democratic party. They would not be re-electable after that

They would cave and cave badly

And we would get the public option

This thing can happen Obama just has to start fighting and stop throwing jabs