watching nbc nightly news...brian wiliams calls it Obamacare...then..

[spanone]

then says, 'darn media has me saying Obamacare, i'll get letters' ....talking to chuck todd



brian, you ARE the darn media.

[JuniperLea]

1. What an idiot...

All of the alphabet news stations are made of the same sackcloth.

[catabryna]

12. Don't have anything valuable to add...

but did want to let you know that I LOVE your peace sign. :thumbsup:

[JuniperLea]

14. Thanks!

I have to give credit to the artist, who apparently has no problem with me using it!

www.purplemoon.com Lots more! Not mine, so this isn't spam or anything.

[bigwillq]

2. Is RomneyCare

more acceptable?

:shrug:



on edit:
Yeah, silly statement by Williams.

[PeaceNikki]

4. It'd be more accurate, anyway.

[ClassWarrior]

3. It's the RW framing machine. We SO need to get better at that.

NGU.

[spanone]

5. well, if i could buy GE, i'd stop it, but i'll have to save for months

:D

[ClassWarrior]

6. I'll check back with you in May. Sound good?

:rofl:

NGU.

[spanone]

10. could you give me till june? please?

[ClassWarrior]

13. Done. Rockefeller Center, here we come!!

NGU.

[Johonny]

7. flipped by a health care debate on Bloomberg this weekend

first question was pro/con Obamacare. If you frame the question like that why bother debating. Kept flipping my channel right on past it :)

[slipslidingaway]

8. Jacob Hacker called it Obamacare in 2007 ...

Obamacare: Clearing Away The Fog
Jacob S. Hacker
June 04, 2007

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/06/04/obamacare_clearing_away_the_fog.php



THE HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC OPTION

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=08&year=2009&base_name=the_history_of_the_public_opti

"As progressives mourn the likely death of a public insurance option in health care reform, it's worthwhile to trace the history of exactly where this idea -- a compromise itself -- came from. The public option was part of a carefully thought out and deliberately funded effort to put all the pieces in place for health reform before the 2008 election -- a brilliant experiment, but one that at this particular moment, looks like it might turn out badly. (Which is not the same as saying it was a mistake.)


One key player was Roger Hickey of the Campaign for America's Future. Hickey took UC Berkley health care expert Jacob Hacker's idea for "a new public insurance pool modeled after Medicare" and went around to the community of single-payer advocates, making the case that this limited "public option" was the best they could hope for. Ideally, it would someday magically turn into single-payer. And then Hickey went to all the presidential candidates, acknowledging that politically, they couldn't support single-payer, but that the "public option" would attract a real progressive constituency. Here's Hickey from a speech to New Jersey Citizen Action in November 2007: ...."

[spanone]

9. it's now a derogatory term of the right

[slipslidingaway]

15. Might as well call it Hackercare or anything but not "not for profit HC for all" ...

I understand why the term is used, but the Dems did this to themselves when they only allowed the for profit companies prominent seats at the table ... IMHO.

[malaise]

11. So words do have consequences

OK Brian - got yah!!