Feinstein: Obama May Not Have Votes To Pass Health Care

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[beckpod1]

Not enough votes? The members who fail to do the will of the American public......will be saying the same thing next election time....not enough votes...you're out-of-here!

[northstar11]

unfortunately that would not be a punishment --they just go on to their "just rewards" lobbying for the corporations they voted for.

[bilderberg2009]

i sure hope when the new health care system goes into effect its run as well as the us post office

[socalgal38]

LOL it won't. The new health care system won't last nearly as long as the post office has. Capitalization at it's finest.

[PhilipTaylor]

Medicare has been running since FDR!

STOP the OLD BS!

[chronic]

Well its being run well enough for members of congress not to give it up for themselves!!

[socalgal38]

They are only a fraction of the people that need health care. You are not understanding. Take social security, it was designed to pay into, right? We pay into it from the time we reach what 18 in most cases till we reach 65 yrs old. We are also paying into Medicare for the same basic principal. What if we said ok we deserve to collect to collect social security at the age of 30. How many people are over 30 and how many are going to reach 30 in the next couple of yrs? Than you take out 35 yrs worth of paying by all those people. How long do you think social security would be around? What social security would have to do to make it work is for the ones to receive it would have to continue to pay into it. The same thing will happen to Medicare because we are only putting the highest risk people on this Medicare program. If we had a single payer everyone would be building on Medicare instead of draining it dry.

[PhilipTaylor]

Why Not like Wall Street RUNS Congress!

Now that is EFFICIENT requiring only 1/4% of their ill-Gotten Profits!

[PhilipTaylor]

Congress = Wall Street Annex!

[ekoorb]

Can you hand deliver something across the country for less than 50 cents?

[dandypuddin]

I'd say the post office is a smashing success. Or do you prefer the Wall Street AIG type of success?

[MossyOak]

First it's "You'll have to take what will pass."
Now it's "Nothing will pass."

Congress is dragging this thing out as long as they can because while they pretend to waffle on details the lobbyists ply them with big promises and lots of dough. The longer they dick around, the more they rake in. When they finally do pass something, the only people who will benefit will be insurance company CEO's. Why is this any different than some Third World dictator taking bribes from drug lords?

Our senators are seriously deluding themselves if they think we'll just sit back and let them get away with it. America is watching Iran and seeing how it's done.

[Viper]

Then we will not have the votes for you. I might as well vote for repugs than get the compromises that are being discussed... this is a joke!

At least with repugs, I have no hope that things can change and get better... so no disappointment, no betrayel.

I can do what the insurance companies have done that you want to save.. relocate my workforce to the Caribean.. and by the way, nolonger have to pay income taxes....

If its good enough for Haliburton... its good enough for me!

Regards

[socalgal38]

Viper,
PLEASE take me with you... I'm intelligent, hard working, honest. Ever since I heard this need for Health Care Reform, I have been reading everything that comes out about it and even researching other Countries Health Care, this is a lot of blowhards that are bribed by the Insurance Company. A conflict of interest of the American People. I don't want any plan that will burden our Business, I don't want my boss to provide health care in the place of decent wages. Single payer would do that and it isn't going to happen because the Insurance companies would have to work for their profits like we do.

[MossyOak]

I lived in the Caribbean for many years working for a medical malpractice attorney. You think health care is bad here? American health care is really expensive, but at least we HAVE it. They don't call it The Third World for nothing.

[Crissy Patters]

You're forgetting the millions who don't have health insurance. What about the millions who die or live with chronic illnesses because they can't afford the treatment or medicine they need.

[socalgal38]

I would bet if Viper had said he was moving to Canada you would have said you hd work there for the medical malpractice attorney and how bad their system is too.

Bought and paid for by the AMA or the Insurance Lobbiest? Heard those lines over and over again, scare tactics is a tv show and Bush Adminstration program that is off the air now. So give it up.

[Marcospinelli]

If we learned nothing else from the Bush-Cheney administration, it's that you can sell anything to the American people with the right sales pitch.

Like single payer universal health care, the only reason it wouldn't become law is because Obama and Democrats either don't want it to pass or aren't adept at creating a sales pitch.

So which is it? Because if it's that they don't know how to sell it, it's time to get new people into office who do know how.

[Mugzi]

When 76% of the public want a public option, I think it's sold. The problem is congress is more beholding to HI payoffs than what is best for the country and our citizens. 2010 may be the year to vote in or out those who do or don't support public option. It sounds like it may come down to that one issue!

[mrh3]

Make them defend their health care every day. Demand that they opt out every time you see them. If we speak out in enough places over and over again mainstream media hosts will challenge them just to watch the sparks.

[Pie7]

I can understand not compromising on your morals and principles, but on the health care debate I can’t.

[Cambridge9]

Anyone remember that a couple of years ago the public overloaded the Congress/Senate phone system when it was about to vote on the shrub's amnesty program. It didn't pass.

It's time to do it again people. Fill the e-mail and snail mail boxes, flood the telephones, and call these folks out on every big donor they have. Defending their political moves can prove to be both expensive and embarrasing.

[socalgal38]

we don't have to worry about not getting the public option. All we have to worry about explaining to our seniors in few yrs how come we don't have Medicare anymore, although I have heard talk that they will be moving the seniors to another type of plan. This is not a compromise this is a disaster. The politicians are going to pass a law that everyone has to get insurance. The ones provided Medicare will watch it fall apart because how can they sustain themselves with only having the highest risk covered. Taxes will have to go way up to keep the Medicare system from going bankrupted. Once it fails do you think we will just go into single payer... think again. The insurance companies will be so rich and influenced there is no way to find anyone to buck their system. Look at it now, millions are being spent on our elected officials. I wonder how true it is that President Obama received 1.5 million by an insurance company. So far in 2009 their contributions have gone up 46% over last yr.

If we can't get rid of the insurance monolopy now we will not be able to do it in the future. Look at it like this.. the co op plan is fear, public plan is compromise over what everyone is talking about "single payer" now.

[mediamarv]

Then Madame Senator, you have to work harder.

Very easy for you since all Congress members have an excellent version of socialized health care, even the Repubs who must hate to admit that fact, to give up trying to help the working people of this country.

She is my senator and my fax line to her office has been overheating as of late. Why are Dems such weaklings?

[AlaninElkGrove]

I put her D.C. phone number in my phone book, along with Barbara Boxer and Rep. Dan Lungren, each of whom will get a call supporting single-payer tomorrow on my morning break...

[JackRusselTerrier]

Senator Bernie Sanders is putting together a petition supporting Single Payer Health care. Please go to his website and sign. He is also asking for testimonials so he may read them in Washington showing how important this is to most Americans. This is too important people. Incremental change is not enough. We must fix health care in America. We can't let the lobbyist in Washington control this issue.

Here is the link...

http://sanders.senate.gov/petitions/index.cfm?uid=7fd59f2e-88e1-477a-8eaf-762a5b050809

If you're too lazy to write a handwritten letter or make a phone call to your representative, at least sign this petition.
Preaching to the choir here is not enough!

[jmpurser]

Senator Sanders is IMHO the ONE senator on "our" side.

[ekoorb]

I got something similar from Senator Durbin.

[pfrogger]

I would also add:

everyone who supports healthcare for all:

http://www.1payer.net/about-us/about-us.html
National Rally for Health Care For All Now
* Where: Washington DC National Mall
* When: June 25, 2009
* Time: 10:00 a.m.

please share this with people.
tell as many as you can.
participate. go there and join those who want healthcare for all.

talking is fine. but march on DC and show the politicians who they work for.

[socalgal38]

I have signed up and have read the nightmare stories of ordinary people. I have also written to several representatives. Single payer is the only plan that is designed to work. Compromising on a public plan is designed to fail because it will be the highest risk and being ilimitnated from the for profit insurance company and will make them even richer.

[JackRusselTerrier]

I am now one of your fans.

[dandypuddin]

done.

[zerotimes10]

JackRusselTerrier: Signed it. Great Web site too!

[socalgal38]

Awesome, welcome aboard!

[M1]

Get it done Feinstein. You have too many excuses for far to many important issues.

[JackRusselTerrier]

No compromises. Stop making excuses.

Single payer health care unconditionally for all.

Get it done or get another job and stop riding the revolving door that is the amusement park ride of politicians out of office.

We're tired of our government being controlled by lobbyist.

[pfrogger]

everyone who supports healthcare for all:

http://www.1payer.net/about-us/about-us.html
National Rally for Health Care For All Now
* Where: Washington DC National Mall
* When: June 25, 2009
* Time: 10:00 a.m.

[pfrogger]

please share this with people.
tell as many as you can.
participate. go there and join those who want healthcare for all.

talking is fine. but march on DC and show the politicians who they work for.

[Mildmannered]

Senator Feinstein -- I look forward to reading your article in the L.A. Times aggressively promoting a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, as Americans overwhelmingly support according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.