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| Looks like the Health Care Summit and Michael Bennet’s letter has resulted in some momentum in the Senate to revive the public option: In the wake of last week’s “bipartisan summit” — which proved that no Republicans in Congress will vote for health care reform — an avalanche of Democratic senators are announcing today that they will vote YES for the public health [...] it’s time to get off your heiny and do so. NOW. http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/dailykostv.Dean_Rockefeller_continue_strong_support_for_public_option_-_Daily_Kos_TV_beta_1.flv I’m working on our company’s health insurance renewal, making a spreadsheet of quotes from every insurer available in our company’s geographic area. I can’t get a rate from any of them that’s less than our renewal rate with HealthNet: an increase of 24.48%, and still our employees are going to have [...] Actions have consequences… Wouldn’t it be great if Specter had his petuddy(sp) handed to him by a challenger that actually acts like a true Democrat in the primary? We need a massive amount of new blood in Congress. This will be a test if people in Pennsylvania value seniority over Democratic issues. There is no way anyone can argue Arlen is good [...] Given the state of the Federal budget deficit, this just makes me sick (from Think Progress): Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) have a $250 billion proposal to cut estate taxes for the children of multi-millionaires even more than George W. Bush already did, and it’s attracting a disturbing amount of support. Their $250 billion proposal would raise the estate tax exemption [...] I’m hoping it’s Obama – but he’s already given away the store in the form of tax cuts and striking family planning and the National Mall renewal from the bill. Maybe he just wanted to give the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves. I certainly hope so, because even if this stimulus bill works perfectly and creates/saves 4 million jobs, it won’t get rid of [...] | Available Streams 2    | ||||
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