tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31964974.post924957380108207870..comments2023-09-10T03:33:19.319-04:00Comments on RANDOM THOUGHTS: The Answer Is a Referendum on the Public OptionMycue23http://www.blogger.com/profile/07474424588090159340noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31964974.post-47188078489964412592009-08-18T17:50:12.683-04:002009-08-18T17:50:12.683-04:00@Toby,
many thanks for the encouragement. Frankly...@Toby, <br />many thanks for the encouragement. Frankly I thought often of your own experience with having an insurer classify your eye injury's treatment as a cosmetic procedure.<br /><br />There's no need for anyone to fear the "rationing of medical care," we already have it in spades.<br />-SJSJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17181694732531476160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31964974.post-21485039290579645702009-08-18T17:33:32.703-04:002009-08-18T17:33:32.703-04:00Kudos to you, Sandy and Mike, for your articles on...Kudos to you, Sandy and Mike, for your articles on this. The slow crumbling of the democratic Party's resolve to fight for real health care reform is disappointing, though hardly surprising. It continues to amaze me that the concern in this argument has been to protect the for-profit insurance industry, which is comprised of, in the words of the republican party, bureaucrats who stand between you and your doctor.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05768667484460150261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31964974.post-41179110885871622332009-08-17T16:22:18.757-04:002009-08-17T16:22:18.757-04:00@Jack,
It's certainly disheartening, but it...@Jack,<br />It's certainly disheartening, but it's important to note that we can still make them listen. America voted for change, and as Jim Morrison once sung "we've got the numbers," so we have to act like it. If the people who voted for change make themselves heard now, the Democrats who are tempted to take an easy way out on Health Care reform will straighten up.<br /><br />Ultimately it is up to us. <br /><br />I just emailed all my representatives and now I'm getting on the phone. Legislation and referendums may be the province of the legislature, but I'm calling the White House and everybody down to my local councilman, if only to make the word "referendum" stick.<br />-SJSJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17181694732531476160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31964974.post-21729790959960201592009-08-17T15:57:39.547-04:002009-08-17T15:57:39.547-04:00SJ,
Your idea of a public referendum is brilliant....SJ,<br />Your idea of a public referendum is brilliant. I am contacting all my elected officials today. I am tired of Harry Reid's limp-wristed "leadership." I am fed up with the traitorous actions of bought-out Democrats like Kent Conrad, Max Baucus, and Evan Bayh (whose wife, Susan, sits on the board of WellPoint, a health insurance company. I have HAD IT with members of Congress turning their backs on regular people in favor of appeasing campaign donors from big pharma and big insuranced! <br /><br />If Congress does not find a way to guarantee decent medical coverage to every citizen in this country, I won't support the Democrats anymore. I won't become an Independent. Rather, I will become a cultural, economic, and political American Dissident who will have nothing but total disdain for all that is big and has concentrated capital in this country.Jack Jodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165430903903838990noreply@blogger.com