Arianna was a guest on Larry King Live tonight, along with Ben Stein, to discuss her recent blog in which she advises Vice President Joe Biden to resign from the Obama administration over his disagreement with the upcoming escalation of the war in Afghanistan.
She and Stein also talked about the prospects for passing meaningful health care reform.
WATCH:
Dems scramble after warning from health insurers - Yahoo! News
Insurers mount attack against health reform - Yahoo! News
Senate panel OKs health reform bill; Obama: 'We're not there yet ...
In the end Doctors will make more money !!!!
The true healthcare reform we need is where we have direct B2B
relationship between Patients and doctors and then some catastrophic
health insurance coverage.
We need something like we have for auto insurance. I pay for Oil
change, tire changes, and other maintenance work. The only
difference...it should NOT be mandatory.
If people show up at emergency rooms, let them pay for it.
There is one thing common between the democratic plan and the
republican plan...Both do NOT address the cost and quality of medical
service (Not insurance - There is a difference).
B2B relationship between patient and Doctors/Hospitals.
Let them compete to get our business. Let the dentists/OBGYN/Hospitals
compete on price & quality just like hotels do.
That is FREE MARKET.
Republican argument of having INSURANCE companies compete is a smoke
screen. The users/patients never see the effect of that competition.
Demoractic plan of the Public option is a disaster.
Traiffs, BARRIER TO ENTRY LAWS, Tax Cuts --- all prevent competition !!!!!!!!!
the fact of the matter is those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it.
one could argue it was Afganistan that brought down the Soviet Union(with a little help from the U.S arming them.) don't think they wont try the same to us.regardless, how many empires have tried to take Afganistan.
We probably could win with an additional 200,000 troops, but i for one would rather have that money spent on someone's health care.
Why don't we try using the carrot, you can make more friends with carrots than you can with bombs.
P.S. I support our troops, but they may be dying in vane,which i will never support.
Thanks
As for Joe Biden resigning, I agree in principle, but it is way too early for such a move to have any impact. His is a voice in the wilderness being drowned out by the shrieks of hawks.
Get as many signatures on Governor Dean's http://americacantwait.com/ as possible, so that it increases the impact when the signatures are delivered next week.
And of course, you should contact your public option supportive Senators and tell them thank you and insist they stand strong.
My senator, Bill Nelson, is pretty much worthless on this. He was the former insurance commissioner of Florida, so he's protecting industry profits.
But you're right -- Reid has the power. Unfortunately, he is acting like a Nevadan instead of the Senate leader who should be concerned with what the majority of 307 million Americans want. Not the stalwart leader we need at the forefront right now for true health insurance reform.
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It is as plain as day. Harry Reid can add a robust Public Option on his own to the Health Care Bill. Then the Senate will need 60 votes to REMOVE the Public Option from the bill. If Harry Reid leaves the Public Option out then it will take 60 votes to put it in. The whole Public Option concept depends on what Harry Reid does. Call Harry Reid's office right now and tell him he needs to include a robust Public Option concept in the final Senate bill since the Public Option concept will control health care costs for the consumers. Without the Public Option Harry Reid has sold out the average American. It is all dependent on Harry Reid's actions!
This is NOW a W@R of CHOICE as Ar!anna said!
What a guy.