Daschle Folds on Federal Public Health Care Plan

Why am I not surprised? Because, unfortunately, I’ve been waiting for the democrats to back down and settle for almost nothing. I wonder if they realize that they’re reinforcing the GOP image of them as wishy-washy do nothings for a lot of people?

Let’s get past the deception by the democrats, that it’s possible to add 47 million people to health insurance with an MAJOR increase in total health costs. Do the math. The question that needs to be addresses is simple, is the primary goal to insure the 47 million or is it to decrease the cost of healthcare? It’s one or the other…

I don’t get it. How is a state or regionally covered public plan different than the Big Government public plan, except that the states and regions don’t have the Big Printing Press to outlast the private plans. Nevertheless, a cheap government plan (whether it’s federal or local) will drive out of business a more expensive private plan (with all its options), when enough human resource departments see that the govt.one is cheaper for them. Except, that when the government is involved, it is not really a free market in the end.

Well Mr & Mrs America, what do you expect from lobbist? That’s what Mr. Daschle has been over these last years, I am sure the health industry has paid him thousands. No worry, the Democratic Congress is still in control, and people like Bernie Sanders won’t be bought! Healthcare, and profit, cannot co-exist! CEO’s making millions, Doctors having to settle for whatever, while private insurance raise the Doctors and Drug Companies expectations, because they can charge your for it will soon come to the end. If the healthcare industry would have made changes earlier, to their cherry picking, and the Drug Companies to their charging Americans for their losses elsewhere, the change that is sure to come, would not have been necessary. But then, GREED would not be part of the picture.

I really don’t understand why people are calling this a total loss. While some people may have wanted a “public option”, this doesn’t mean that there will be no reform.
I have one of the expensive private policies that cost me about 50% of my income after taxes. That’s just for the insurance. Its crappy and I pay lots out of pocket as well. But I am now hopeful that the government will now regulate these insurers and prevent the practice of discrimination by medical underwriting. This is why many of our policies cost so much.
The public option was scrapped because no one could find a way to pay for it. Since America is more than broke, I am not surprised. I don’t think that many of us would like the enormous price tag on increased taxes, etc – that would have been inevitable. Any other method of raising revenue would surely have put us into a deeper recessionary spiral.
This does not mean, however, that significant regulation of these people can’t be achieved. There are also extensive provisions for generous government subsidies for those who cannot still afford a policy.
If you want to blame someone, blame President Obama for committing all our financial resources and then some before this issue was discussed in Congress. We have been given this option because we have been deemed to be less important the alternative fuels and pollution control. If less money had gone there, we would have had more for health care.

Government must stay out of health care.
Another Iran do what we tell you we know what’s best. You are a Radical if you think for yourself. We want no opposition do you here. We will not tell your story if you oppose our plan.
Sounds like Iran, supprised the internet is not down yet.

Wait – what’s this going to do to ABC’s prime time hour of adoration? Guess this may free up some time to talk about Bo, what the prez had for breakfast and maybe we’ll even get to watch all the journalists bow to Obama (or will Diane curtsy?) I bet NBC is pea-green with envy right now. ABC – you go girl!

As a former South Dakotan I am very disappointed in Mr. Daschle. At least the Democrats are finally coming out of the woodwork. I always thought you obtained insurance to “insure” that when you needed to use it, the funds would be there. ” Insurance should not be tied to jobs, all pre-existing illnesses should be done away with (everyone has some type of pre-existing illness, or will), all insurance forms standardized and, if we keep private insurance, it should be regulated in some way. I believe a plan like Medicare for all would work. I have been on Medicare and a supplement for 3 years and have been totally happy. If everyone was paying into one plan this could work. Most people pay into health insurance for years but only start having health issues in their later years, so after everyone paying in all those younger years the funds would be available when needed. I can’t believe all you democrats are “giving in” to the lobbyists, insurance companies and the giant drug companies with markups on prescriptions that are unbelievable! Exactly how is your “government health insurance plan” working for you? And you get to keep it after your retirement. We would like to have that same type of coverage. We should be able to keep our insurance forever and stay with our existing doctors for a much better continuity of care.
I am also on Social Security and that has “run like a clock” for me. Please, please handle this in a humane way for all the uninsured (we are already carrying that cost), and for all of us Americans. I know you can do it, if you want to. Please don’t let President Obama and all the citizens of our country down this time.

No public option=no reform. A robust medicare-like public option was already a compromise. The majority of americans want single payer and over 75% want a public option.
What do we get? Backstabbed. Again.

Without a Strong Public Option (not a “co-op” and no 7-year trigger!) Any so-called “Health Care Reform” bill will simply “rearrange the deckchairs” on our current “Titanic” healthcare problems.
I am calling my Representatives EVERY DAY on this, and I hope you are too.

I am sorely disappointed in Tom Daschle for this. I was nervous when he was almost appointed to the post after I heard about his connections in the health insurance industry. Now I feel relieved that he didn’t secure the nomination.
We need a public option. We need it to give us *true* choice, and to be able to keep the health insurance industry honest.
The industry’s priority is to maximize profits, not provide the best care at an affordable price. An opportunity to choose a government plan is our best bet now. It will *increase competition*.
Let’s not blow it!
(Shame on you, Tom Daschle!)

I hosted one of Tom Daschle’s health care discussion groups, in my home, back in December. Our group decided that we wanted an end to the health insurance industry’s influence over health care, and the start of single payer coverage in the United States. I compared results with a lot of different groups, who all said the same thing, that we wanted true universal coverage instead of the status quo.
That’s probably the real reason Tom Daschle quit, the inability to deal with “we, the people.”

Thank goodness Daschele is speaking up–this disaster of Obama’s shows that he knows nothing about health care. As a senior, I do not want him telling me I can’t get health care because I am old. His base is mostly young people who could care less about anyone but themselves. What will they do when all of us “working fools” die off ? where will their money come from then for their “higher education? Wake UP. If Americans think they can get good health care for cheap–where do you think you will get doctors and nurses? No person wants to go through 20 years of school only to find that he is stripped of a good income.People MUST wake up to reality–there are no free rides.

Stupidity continues to reign in America. The CBO tells you that we can’t afford to pay for public health care. You look around the world and see the blight that is socialized medicine. You realize that socialism goes against our very core beliefs as Americans. You understand that the only reason health care has gotten more and more costly has been because of government meddling (forcing health coverage for those who can’t pay, forcing people to provide health insurance, allowing frivolous lawsuits, and on and on).
You know all that and you keep screaming about how the government needs to become MORE involved.
It’s just like the mortgage crisis – created by the government, but you socialists blame the private sector so you can cripple us even more effectively.
Stupidity reigns, embodied by a vain and incompetent president.

Listen to open-minded-liberals whine at the thought of compromise. How does increasing coverage by itself not result in rationing. It’s impossible.

How can you bring up Daschle with out bringing up his connection to lobbying for the health care industry? This is everything wrong with news these days. Too lazy to put facts and context into reports like this. Of course Daschle does not want universal health care — it would cut into his lobbying profits. Come on ABC News — do your job!

They’ll do anything to increase the U.S. Federal debt (especially War, Health Care, and Infrastructure). A big problem is that credit can grow on a whim now that it is no longer backed by anything (since 1971, see Gold Standard on Wikipedia). Even worse, the Federal Reserve has the fortune of creating as much money as it wants out of thin air, which is also the international reserve currency. And even worse, the Federal Reserve, which is a private entity, creates money at ZERO cost to itself (i.e. they just go a computer and enter a dollar amount to create in its bank account), then LENDS the money to the U.S. Government AT INTEREST. The Government (i.e. the American people) has to give real money to this private cartel of banks for their “service” of creating money out of thin air. The Government (i.e. the American people) is truly the loser in this system. Andrew Jackson (who was almost assassinated) eliminated the private central bank in 1833, but it just popped back up under the Aldrich-Vreeland Act and the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, immediately after Woodrow Wilson was elected. Wilson’s political opponent had also promised to sign the same Act, which was under a different name, if he were to get elected. The international bankers gave themselves once again control over the American monetary system without paying a penny. JFK started Silver-backed currency, then got assassinated a couple of months later. The Federal Reserve has never been audited, and Goldman Sachs, the leader of the banking cartel, truly rules the world… for now. Pelosi, Obama, Bush, Cheney, and most others in DC (except Ron Paul) are just spokespeople for the Federal Reserve.

New saying: “Those who have nothing to give government will get nothing from government.”
Let us get together and prove to the big money lap dogs that we can vote them out of office faster than big money can starve them out for not voting for big money. The French are not afraid of their government; why should we in the US be afraid of ours?