Obama, Frank, Schakowsky: All Proponents of ‘Single-Payer,’ Government-Run Health Care, All Convinced a ‘Public Option’ is the Way to Get There (Hint: They’re Right)

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  August 3rd at 10:00 AM  | 

Obama (D-IL): “I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be potentially some transition process” (3/24/07, at SEIU “Universal Health Care Forum”); “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care system” (2003 at AFL-CIO event) Frank (D-MA): “I think if we get a good public option, it could lead to single-payer; that’s the | Read More »

Democrats Reject Two Measures to Create Parity Between Congress’ Health Coverage and the Public’s

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 31st at 05:25 PM  | 

Bringing the Public’s Coverage to the Congressional Level House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats voted 31-28 to reject an amendment from Reps. Roy Blunt (R-MO), Phil Gingrey (R-GA), and Lee Terry (R-NE) that would have opened up the multiple-plan health coverage options available to Members of Congress to the public at large. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), who spoke at length yesterday about the need to | Read More »

Tonight’s Obama Presser: More of the Same from the Self-Styled “Agent of Change”

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 09:01 PM  | 

Tonight’s presser was simply more of the same from the self-styled “agent of change” and “post-partisan politician”: Pure politics, unwavering liberal ideology, appallingly transparent scare tactics, demonization of a nameless opposition, and an argument so thick with straw men that the President had better wait until he’s several hundred meters away to light his next cigarette, lest the entire building go up in flames. Obama’s | Read More »