Dean on ABC: "This is an insurance company's dream, this bill...the Washington scramble."

[madfloridian]

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From ABC today about the interview:

Howard Dean: Health Care Bill 'Bigger Bailout for the Insurance Industry Than AIG'

"This is a bigger bailout for the insurance industry than AIG," former Democratic National Committee chairman and medical doctor Howard Dean told "Good Morning America's" George Stephanopoulos today. "A very small number of people are going to get any insurance at all, until 2014, if the bill works.

"This is an insurance company's dream, this bill," Dean continued. "This is the Washington scramble, and I think it's ill-advised."

..."We've gotten to this stage ... in Washington where passing any bill is a victory, and that's the problem," Dean said. "Decisions are being made about the long-term future of this country for short-term political reasons, and that's never a good sign."

He said he also doesn't see cost-control measures but, rather "a whole bunch of bureaucracies and a lot of promises."

..."The former Vermont governor said he would suggest using money allocated for community health centers and wellness and prevention programs to help people buy insurance and that less power be transferred into the hands of the private insurance companies.

Dean, who said he believes the bill will pass the Senate, initially supported health care legislation.

"I've been involved in this all along. I put up with a lot of stuff I didn't like because I thought at the end of the day what was good about the bill outweighed what's bad about the bill," Dean said. "I don't believe that anymore."

[FarPoint]

1. I really trust Howard Dean....

and he is one of a Few Good Men left!

[vi5]

2. I trusted Dean whe he said the bill was good......

...before all the recent changes, and so did a lot of people on here. Even when much had already been taken out and changed, he assured the skeptical that it was still a step forward and worth passing.

So if he is now saying that due to the recent changes it is a bad bill, then I believe him.

[tomm2thumbs]

3. 1/3 of your money enriches corporate executives with tens of millions of dollars

as example, of your 900 dollars, a full 300 bucks goes to NOT giving you health care

THAT is a complete fraud

[madfloridian]

4. Well the unrec patrol is out in force. It's controversial, so that's okay.

[ihavenobias]

10. K & R, let me help to cancel these clowns out.

I'm deeply disappointed by the fact that so many dems blindly support anything president Obama does while rejecting relevant criticism, just like the republicans did with Bush. It was wrong then and it's now.

[madfloridian]

15. Key words..."blindly support". We have to stop doing that.

Look what happened to the GOP when they did that kind of worship for Bush. They will never recover.

[chill_wind]

5. K & R. n/t

[debbierlus]

6. The preexisting condition has been mutilated - older Americans will pay up to 3x as much!

Fuckers

They are such FUCKERS.

FUCK THEM.

[democracy1st]

7. K & R

[inna]

8. KR

[debbierlus]

9. Did you see ABC's slick graphics for cheerleading this piece of shit

It was disgusting.

[PassingFair]

11. What's with the "embedding disabled by request"?

What does THAT mean?

[madfloridian]

12. I have seen that message often here. Just click the You Tube link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVOpunQ6bMY

I don't know if You Tube does it or the poster or DU.

[PassingFair]

13. I did. Good to see Stephenopoulous still working for the Clintonians....

:puke:

[madfloridian]

14. They only question Dean hard like that. No others.

Others, conservatives like Lieberman, are given a pass and hardly questioned at all.

Georgie S. was bordering on rude.

[democrank]

16. Howard Dean is a truth teller.

He`d rather function on principles than "win" as a sellout.