A Burris under the health care reform saddle

...on this issue. We need the Public Option, or all this will be is a boondoggle for the insurance industry.

And lets not lose track: The way that the insurance lobby is spreading around money would make Blogo blush! Buris' behavior is more ethical than some we could name.

Burris is saying "screw you Chicago." Oops, I meant "screw you White House."

I might have to become a Roland Burris fan just because he knows how to say "up yours!"

Move over Joe Wilson, you've got company.

Joe Wilson puts the "citizen" back in citizen legislator. In 2010, send more to Washington, D.C. and wipe it clean of trough-feeders, race-baiters, constitution torchers, political hacks, ass-kissers, scumbags, leeches liars.

We "need" the "public option" as much as we need AIDS. A poll published Monday by Rasmussen Reports found that 42% of voters nationwide favor Obama's and Democrats' health-care reform plan. That was down two points from a week earlier and four from two weeks earlier. The survey found that 54% are opposed to the plan.

Most Americans have NOT been dumbed down! Most Americans don't want the criminal Obamacare scam.

http://abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1095a2HealthCareandPolitics.pdf

Here says 57 percent support a public option....so that would disagree with the other poll.

The percentage of Americans who want a public option has not changed since June. So all of those phony grassroots activists who monopolized our librul media with their antics at the town hall meetings accomplished nada. Gotta love it.

those who favor a public option are not passionately trying to get MCCarran-Ferguson repealed?
This nasty piece of legislation has protected the insurance industry since 1945 from the competitive standards of anti-trust enforcement.
It is perfectly legal, and the insurance industry has practiced it, of going into a room and fixing the price we pay for insurance. This collusion is illegal in every other form of business with the exception of MLB.
The whole of idea of a public option is to create a bureaucracy that competes with private insurance to give consumers a choice. Taxpayers would have to pay to hire, train, and establish offices for these folks throughout America. That upfront cost won't be recovered later. It is money down the drain.

I prefer to see us force the insurance industry to forego McCarran-Ferguson protections and compete fairly on the open market. If Aetna can provide service at a lower unit rate than Blue Cross and is able to capture more market share by lowering premiums...we all win! Including the shareholders at Aetna (or whichever insurance company does the best job of managing).
We can launch this change with nearly zero dollars of additional debt...no additional bureaucrats...and immediate response. The public option isn't going to be available for years and years. This plan will start immediately.

I have written my representatives and asked for their support in ending McCarrran-Ferguson. I hope others, even if you support the public option, will do the same. Ending McCarran-Ferguson doesn't mean we don't have the right to proceed with the public option by building into the health care reform act a trigger if this change doesn't do the trick. It just gives us immediate relief at very little risk.