Insurance industry insider on Dem compromises: "We WIN"

[brentspeak]

Which means, everyone else loses. Billy Tauzin's White House brunches/lunches/dinners with Obama and with the various corporate Democrats have evidently paid off.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1209/Insurance_industry_insider_We_win.html

Insurance industry insider: 'We win'

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30255.html">With the Senate shifting sharply away from a "pure public option," an insurance industry insider who has been deeply involved in the health care fight emails to declare victory.

"We WIN," the insider writes. "Administered by private insurance companies. No government funding. No government insurance competitor.”

[yurbud]

1. if this is true, Democrats are being profoundly short sighted. If insurance wins, Dems lose--BIG

[debbierlus]

8. I know it. Perhaps they don't care and just plan on getting jobs with the enemy

And, collecting fat paychecks.

It is a stupid political strategy.

[AndyA]

2. Ultimately, it's the American people who lose. And the Democrats in

2010 and 2012. You'd think they'd be smart enough to see that, but apparently they aren't. Which does explain a lot about why things are so screwed up.

The only ones who could do a worse job are the GOP, and it would seem the minority party still has enough control over the majority that they can change whatever they want. It sure wasn't like that during the Bush II years.

[brentspeak]

4. Today's Democratic leadership is dumber than a box of lugnuts

70 years ago, the public was so grateful for a president who actually gave a damn about them that the Democrats were rewarded with decades of electoral success. The only way the Republicans could compete was to become more like the Democrats -- that's how Eisenhower and Thomas Dewey were successful. Since Reagan's time, the Democratic leadership has felt it should be the other way around.

[bvar22]

10. Not dumb. All according to plan.

The Right Wing Corporatist Democrats would rather see a Republican in a Congressional seat than a REAL Democrat.

The Right Wing Democrats (Obama/DLC) and The Republicans all work for the same people.


The DLC New Team
Republican Lite ONLY
Working Class Democrats need NOT apply

(Screen Capped from the DLC Website)

[Bitwit1234]

3. Hope they make enough money to cover their conscience and

to pay them the rest of their life, because I bet one thing, most of them will probably loose re-election, if health care reform crumbles.

And here we have another thing just found out. Senator Kyl was the initial contact with the banks to get a measure defeated that would help the people loosing their homes from foreclosure last year. He promised the banks that if they defeated the bill, then they would stop and reverse regulations on them. The emails have surfaced and someone from the banking industry was a whistle blower. WHERE IN THE HELL IS THE OUTRAGE AND PUSHING THIS BY THE MEDIA. They are too busy with Tiger Woods. And trying to slam the democrats with every little tit bit they can find to tell the public about something this horrendous that the republicans have done. NOTHING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THE REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE IS BEING REPORTED IN THE MEDIA. I THINK IF THE DEMOCRATS HAD BALLS, YES BALLS, they would start investigating the press and the network and cable so called news channels.

[quantass]

5. The Democratic Party is a Joke -- We need a new Party.

Apparently our party doesnt give a damn about us...just their wallets.

[NYCGirl]

6. Wow! An unnamed "industry insider" emails someone. I guess it's all over.

:eyes:

What stellar journalism!

[tosh]

7. +1.

:eyes:

[Lochloosa]

12. +2

[uponit7771]

15. Another freeper move, source the "unammed" over and over again...

[bvar22]

9. It was WIN/WIN for the Insurance Cartels....

...the day Obama took Single Payer Off the Table.

After that day, the entire "debate" was about whether to throw any crumbs to the Working Class.

[rockymountaindem]

11. Well, that's one possible outcome

The other one that's popped up in the last 48 hours, that of Medicare buy-ins and lowering the age to 60 or 55 is a definite reversal for the big insurance behemoths and something I could definitely get behind (for now).

[saracat]

13. Okay cue those that said Obama and the dems would get a PO.

Is it time yet to admit they caved? or that those backdoor deals with Big Pharma and the insurance companies were real?

[Armstead]

14. Sometime our side sucks so bad....We fucved up health reform

[uponit7771]

16. People who believe the corporate M$M and "unamed" sources deserve to be fustrated no?