“Deal” Could Put Joe Lieberman In Charge Of Regulating Your Health Insurance

[babsbunny]

“Deal” Could Put Joe Lieberman In Charge Of Regulating Your Health Insurance

By: Jon Walker Thursday December 10, 2009 11:27 am

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/12/10/deal-could-put-joe-lieberman-in-charge-of-regulating-your-health-insurance/

One of the big components of the new possible “deal” in the Senate would be to create a new, national Office of Personnel Management (OPM)-run program. How exactly this OPM exchange for national non-profit insurance plans, which is meant to be a replacement for the public option, would work is unclear. Rumors are that if the non-profit insurance companies fail to offer good enough plans on this new OPM exchange, it would trigger the creation of a real public option.

Who in Congress would likely oversee this new OPM exchange? The answer is Joe Lieberman.

The plan emerging from negotiations among moderate and liberal Democrats would put a key part of the planned health insurance exchanges under the supervision of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). And jurisdiction for oversight of OPM falls to the centrist-dominated Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which Lieberman chairs.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. I can't even imagine the size of the riot.

[walldude]

8. Oh I can...

A few thousand bitching on the internet for a couple days and then back to business. Woo Hoo.

[elehhhhna]

2. fyi the OMP is totally outsourced to a CARLYLEGROUP subsidiary --

the Bush & BinLaden families will be in it, too. For profit. Theirs.

[peace frog]

3. Oh, FUCK NO

Jeezus H. Keerist, what is wrong with this Democratic Senate???
Are they all hopelessly hugh morans, or what is it?
Way to kill what could be a great program, Dems. **head / desk**

[Shagbark Hickory]

5. They're all fired and they know it.

[Shagbark Hickory]

4. He doesn't control my healthcare. I get my healthcare from Mexico n/t

[DontTreadOnMe]

6. I am feeling sick.

Joe Lieberman put in charge on anything by the DEMS is making me feel sick.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. DHS in charge of Health Care. Riiiight.

And Washington has had such a success with all its other oversight offices, hasn't it?

Dems just gave admitted they gave away everything to their real overlords.

And the sickening thing is ,by the 2010 elections, they will have successfully bet that no one remembers.

[Ruby the Liberal]

9. This is insane.

:wtf: