The best part about C-SPAN is the part when people get to call in, some are normal, but you always get a lot of crazies and time wasters. This time, it’s a caller that wastes valuable time asking about the existence of UFOs. By the way, I recommend watching the whole c-span interview with callers asking Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs about whatever they want to know. To watch the whole interview just click on the “X” in the box next to “clip”, enjoy.
Parties are fun, but that’s what the weekends are for. But, not for house republicans that don’t want to make progress on key legislation. Most couldn’t even afford to go to John Boehner’s beach party, but I’m wondering if any of us regular people were invited. Anyways, here’s the invitation. You can read more about it Think Progress.
Just like Jim DeMint, now Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma thinks republicans will gain from the failure of a health care reform bill. Sen. Inhofe is more concerned with 2010 and how this will bring back the republican party. But Americans can still see that the do nothing strategy of the republican party isn’t best for this country. So the strategy is to make it so that Obama fails rather then helping to make the American people have affordable health care. Here’s what Inhofe said on a radio show, via Think Progress,
INHOFE: Oh, I think so. I really do. In fact, there’ll be a lot of Democrats. You know, I liken it to the cap and trade thing. Now that’s the one that I’ve been kind of in charge of for ten years, and we know where we are on that now. We know that if, as long as people keep talking the way they are right now, we’re going to defeat it. They only have 34 votes. They need 60 votes. I’d say health care right now is somewhere in the neighborhood of, they have maybe 45 votes. But every day, they lose votes, because people find out what it is, what it’s going to do, and what it’s not going to do. When you tell people that the mortality rate in Canada is 25% higher for breast cancer, 18% higher for prostate cancer, you know, they say why in the world would we emulate a system like that? This is life threatening. And so we have all the issues on our side on this thing, and I think, you know, I just hope the President keeps talking about it, keeps trying to rush it through. We can stall it. And that’s going to be a huge gain for those of us who want to turn this thing over in the 2010 election.
Using the demise of health care reform as politics is the reason why nothing major gets done in Washington. These senators have a government health care plan and it’s another case of what’s good for them isn’t good for the rest of us. Playing politics on this issue isn’t what’s best for the American people, but it’s only what’s best for the GOP.
Well, good news so far. The day after Obama’s health care speech the DOW soars past 9,000 for the first time since January during the Bush depression.
There’s no way we can be expected to know their supposed health care plan if there’s contradicting messages on the costs. This might mean that they don’t account for cost properly. Michael Steele is saying that health care will cost Americans a lot of money. Then Michele Bachmann says that health care reform will lower costs for Americans so much that it’ll drive private insurance companies out of business. Can’t have it both ways. One of the main arguments against health care reform is that it’ll drive insurance companies out of business because it’s cheaper. But republicans are saying that it’ll cost Americans a lot of money, even though CBO said that it’s deficit neutral and instead actually creates surpluses. If it this was going to cost Americans a lot of money and “pain“, then why would Americans support a public option? Why would we need health care reform? And why would people choose the public plan over private insurance?
If Steele was correct to say that the public option would cost Americans more money, then many wouldn’t buy into the public option, private insurers wouldn’t be out of business and with less people in the public option, it’d drive down cost needed to maintain government run health care! Steele and Bachmann’s arguments can not fit together, nonetheless they still try to fool the public. First, here’s Michael Steele’s full interview on CNN and yes, towards the end of the interview, he isn’t even sure what health care he has. Like always, he’s out of touch, no surprise.
Now Michele Bachmann along with Rep. Kline are saying that we shouldn’t have a public option in health care reform because it’s cheaper for Americans. This is what Bachmann said on the house floor, via. Minnesota Independent,
Approximately 114 million Americans are expected to leave private health insurance. Why? Their employers will drop the insurance because the taxpayer-subsidized plan will be 30 to 40 percent cheaper. This action will collapse the private health insurance market, and then the Federal Government will own the health provider game.
You can read Rep. Kline’s statements here. The republicans need to stay on one message. Now I’m sure there’s some lone republicans in Congress that have plans but, the GOP isn’t rallying behind a feasible new plan to propose or promote. By the conflicting statements above they can’t even decided whether it’ll be cheaper or not for the American people. The republican party doesn’t have it together on this issue, which is why it’s not surprising that Americans don’t trust them when it comes to health care.
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Joe Scarborough, of Morning Joe and Michael Steele, RNC chairman spared over the costs of health care this morning. Scarborough, asked him a simple question of whats the republican plan to cover cost in the long run. Maybe it’s because the republicans don’t have a long term plan but Steele adverted the policy question. First, here’s what the Morning Joe clip,
Steele says republicans plan on reducing costs are, portability, co-ops, deductions from employers and tort reform, those are respectable ideas. Portability is already in Obama’s health care plan, co-ops and deductions can cause loopholes in the system and that’s why republicans need to be clear on how they’d implement this proposal and tort reform was already addressed and won’t cover significant costs. Scarborough is right that we need long term solutions. Apparently Steele was the wrong person to ask this question to, because according to him, he doesn’t do policy, he only criticizes it,
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