Sanders: Public Option Clearly Needed
WASHINGTON, September 29 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after the Senate Finance Committee rejected two amendments to add a public option plan to major health care legislation:
“I am disappointed, although not surprised, that the effort to pass a public option failed in the Senate Finance Committee. Fortunately, there is a public option in the health committee bill and my hope and expectation is that that provision will be part of the final bill. Clearly, if we are serious about cost containment, private insurance companies must have competition from a public plan.”
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If the Democrats has to ask the republicans may I then what good is it to have two parties. i will not give another dime to the Democrates if thay back down from the public option
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Willie,
The President needs to get some balls and tell the Democratic senators that he want the single payer option passed now... If you allow the insurance companies to have any say in any part of an insurance plan the American public will be screwed. The public option is a farce. The problem is there is no leadership in the senate and the President, for some reason, is trying to play to the Republicans. Somebody needs to tell the President to wake up before the work that so many of the people who put him in office are screwed royally by Republicans. I helped campaign for a Democratic President who I thought was like FDR and I'm really beginning to worry.