Feb 20, 2010 at 8:14 AM
Hat-tip Hotair.com and Reuters:
The legislation the White House will post on its website is expected to reflect common ground negotiated over the past several weeks by House and Senate Democratic leaders.
Those agreements are likely to be combined as a privileged budget reconciliation bill, which only needs a simple 51-vote majority to pass the 100-member Senate instead of the 60-vote supermajority that has become routine in the Senate and gives Republicans power to block the healthcare bill.
"I believe that's the path we are going to take," a senior congressional Democratic aide said.
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Ugh...horrible. If public options are the way we get low priced good & services then where is the government-run department store option that keeps Walmarts prices so low? Where are the government-run supermarket chain that forces Shop Rite to sell me filet mignon for $3.99\lb?? The government's electronic gadget option must have been working overtime cause I just got a 40" high-definition LCD TV at Best Buy for $500!! Thank God for politicians!
Public option really just mean's eventual government monopoly (think DMV, Postal service, roads\highways). These are the monopolies that destroy lower and midclass American lives, delivering poor services & no competitiors who might have a better cheaper way of serving consumers.
What people don't seem to grasp is that even if there is only one or two companies delivering a good\service that does not make it a monopoly. As long as there is freedom to enter the market, then there is the chance for competition, which drives efficiency and lower prices. In some cases, no one enters the market because the good\service cannot be delivered any more efficiently at that particular moment, but what we see in healthcare is not a free-market produced marginal revenue product price. What we see today is the managed care industrial complex in bed with Washington, working deals to ensure their own market monopolies. Its bad for sick people but its awesome for politicians and power-hungry business's.
Companies cozy up with the government to pass regulations and laws to make free entry into the market more difficult. Can we start to see who is really responsible for the "evil monopoly" syndrome? I'm so disgusted to see ostensibly educated people such as Ms. Maddow begging the government to deliver her a service that the government can only further ruin.
Our federal government has so much power and so much money and this is the sole reason why the most corrupt politicians and business gravitate to DC. The answer is not more regulations. The answer is not more honest politicians. The answer is for every American to follow and uphold the US Constitution, which severely limits the size and scope of government.
Oh well, who is John Galt?