There is still hope for decent HCR

[27inCali]

three steps

1) the hardest -dig out all the poison bills in the Senate bill stuck there to make it fail. Close all the loopholes you can -Focus on just keeping the very few good things that cannot pass through reconciliation.
2) get the fucker passed before New Years.
3) starting New years day, get the reconciliation process started. It's going to take a better part of the year, but expand the shit out of whatever programs are in the original bill.

optional 4th step:

use this issue as a means to PICK UP Senate seats. Even for a lot of conservative people, HCR is powerful enough to make them a one issue voter (we all have sick loved ones getting the shaft).
If Dem candidates in moderate states that happen to have a Repug Senator (and there are at least 4 this year) push themselves as the last vote needed to foil that asshole Liebeman, it may be enough to put them over the top.
I'm all for getting rid of blue dogs, but it seems to me that's a 2012 kinda thing to do, once we've picked up a few more seats and can afford to lose some. But we can do it over the next two cycles.


optional 5th step:

help activists in Connecticut modify their constitution to allow the recalling of a Senator.......you know where I am going with this......

[dysfunctional press]

1. hillary rodham clinton isn't already decent...?

:shrug:

on edit- i see you've already fixed the subject line....

[27inCali]

3. how many people have made that typo in the last few months

must be millions

[dysfunctional press]

5. it was the first one i saw.

:shrug:

[HuckleB]

2. I hope you're right.

[sellitman]

4. Our Gov. Is a Repiggy unfortunately.

Otherwise I don't doubt LIEberman would have been out long ago.

[HillbillyBob]

6. Call me sarpuss, but all i see is a pay off

to the insurance industry.

If everyone who has insurance and I mean everyone(like this will ever happen) withhold payment for a few months.
The only power we have any more is what we spend $ on.
I m lucky to be completely disabled and on medicare and medicaid, unless I get
tossed off because im not close enough yet to death.
I did nearly die before i could get help. I was homeless, too sick to work and had to land in ICU before I could get help.

[pansypoo53219]

7. inch by inch

step by step. NOTHING IS NOTHING. the health insurance/medical idustrial complex is STRONG. and unions still don't get it that single payer good. and makes companies stronger-higher wages.