UPDATE: We’ll be broadcasting live at 12:30 today with our health care roundtable and discussion. Thanks for your understanding and please join us then!
Live today at noon: Is Congress going to “opt-out” of real health care reform, or is the so-called opt-out provision a worthy compromise for progressives who’ve already compromised just to get to discussion of a public option? We’ll have Adam Thompson of the Progressive States Network, Paul Waldman from The American Prospect, and Representative Raul Grijalva, Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, to discuss the fate of health care reform now that it’s in the hands of the entire Congress, not just a committee.
We’ll have other guests too, so join us live at noon or check back later to catch the show!
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I was surprised this morning to hear Thom Hartmann on his radio program say he thinks opt-out is a good idea. He used the example of the interstate highway system, whereby states did not have to do it, but would lose a lot of federal money if they did not. Same with Carter’s 55 mph interstate highway speed limit.
And one more thing. The fate of health care reform isn’t quite yet in the hands of the entire Congress. The point has been made in a number of places that, right now, the whole shebang is in the hands of Harry Reid.
I like opt-out, the red states have held us back for too long.
Grijalva rocks.
The right wing is irrational, and if Obama supports an individual mandate, then they will oppose it. Progressives should work with conservatives to oppose an individual mandate if there is no public option.
What should be done is Nationalize the health insurance industry, take it all over throw out the profit takers, and use the plans, people, and infrastucture of their system has to build it to a National care level using the profits, instead of our taxes.
This would take brains in Washington, a spines in the ones there, but neither exists, and the people are to dumb to ask for this. We will set back and take what ever is shoved at us, with little complaint, and pay for all of it like mindless fools we are.