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Sen Lieberman tells Obama - give up for now on Health reform Oh! Oh! Obama has lost another vote in the Senate. Looks like he doesn't have that 60 vote majority to avoid a filibuster.
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“I’m afraid we’ve got to think about putting a lot of that off until the economy’s out of recession,” Mr. Lieberman said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “There’s no reason we have to do it all now, but we do have to get started. And I think the place to start is cost health delivery reform and insurance market reforms.”
Mr. Lieberman’s comments could further complicate Democratic efforts to get a health care overhaul passed in Congress. They had been depending on the independent senator to support their efforts, even though he often aligns with Republicans.
In the Senate, 60 votes would be needed to overcome any Republican filibuster, and the Democrats control 60 votes, including those of two independents. However, Senators Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia have been ill. On top of that, moderate Democrats have signaled that they might not support every proposal.
Also Sunday, Senator John McCain said that one way for Democrats and Republicans to reach a compromise would be for Mr. Obama to abandon a government-run insurance program for the nation’s 49 million uninsured.
He criticized the Veterans Administration for using a booklet called “Your Life, Your Choices” to help injured veterans decide which medical treatments they would choose. On one page, he said, veterans are asked “What makes your life worth living?” and some of the choices include confinement to a wheelchair, placement in a nursing home and severely burdening a family’s finances Such questions, he said, were “kind of pushing people toward a predetermined conclusion.”
The booklet, he charged, was written by a proponent of assisted suicide during the Bush administration but he said he managed to block its use in 2007. Last month, he said, the Veterans Administration reinstated it. --
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Re: Sen Lieberman tells Obama - give up for now on Health reform This is my prediction coming true. Just like when the Clinton's attempted it, any real reform will be blocked.
Oh, I'm betting we'll here some feel good talk about Drug companies keeping prices lower on certain drugs, and I'm sure both sides will come together and talk about stamping out Fraud and waste, yadda, yadda, yadda.... but the end result will be this:
NOTHING.
Now, to the people who espouse the argument "This needs to wait due to the deficit and the economy and our financial situation--- we can do this later when things get better..." We need to understand that this is PART of the attempt to get things under control, that the current system is so wasteful and expensive and burdensome that it can drag the Government down ALL BY ITSELF.
This "We need to wait until things are better...." When? It's NOT GOING TO GET BETTER. Medicare is a sinkhole that is going to keep growing like crazy. The simple fact is we've already waited far to long to address this problem and "Waiting" now will just make it worse.
But that's fine, unfortunately, it's predictable. Special interests, and politics. Nothing will be done. And the Nation of the USA will collapse. It's just a question of when.
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