Liberal groups are ready to spend a whopping $82 million to help President Obama and democrats in congress ram through socialized medicine. That’s in addition to all of the free advertising Persident Obama receives from the US media.
“Progressives are fired up and excited about the possibility of what could be the greatest era of progressive reform since 1960,” said Richard Borosage, codirector of the Campaign for America’s Future. “We do this with the wind at our back.”
Joining the effort are two major labor organizations, the AFL-CIO and Change to Win; Health Care for America Now, a coalition of healthcare providers, consumer groups, and activists; MoveOn.org, the massive online activist organization; and other groups that claim a total of 30 million members.
Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee during Obama’s campaign, the former Vermont governor, and author of a forthcoming book on healthcare, said liberal groups would insist that any health legislation include a Medicare-style public insurance option for people under 65.
Forcing insurers to compete with a government plan, Dean said, is the only way to lower premiums dramatically. Asked whether it was more important to have a public option than to have healthcare bill with bipartisan support, Dean said, without hesitating, “Yes.”
“I think bipartisan is wonderful, but what is the point of having a crummy piece of legislation just because it’s bipartisan?” he said.
They don’t mention the costs of nationalized health care, not just in dollars, but in the lives that will be lost when the government starts rationing health care.
H/T Erinn D.
[...] June 3, 2009 by liberatemedicine Source: LonelyConservative.com [...]
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