The return of Judas IsKerryot

[FORD]

Kerry Pushes For Public Option Trigger In Closed-Door Meeting


First Posted: 06-25-09 12:19 PM


In a closed-door meeting of Senate Finance Committee Democratic members and their staff Wednesday evening, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) suggested that the committee bill include a ten-year delay between passage of health care reform and the implementation of a public option that Americans could buy into, according to two Democratic aides.

Under the plan floated by Kerry, a public health care option would only be triggered by private insurance companies failing to meet certain criteria after ten years. Known as the "trigger" in legislative lingo, the idea is vociferously opposed by health care advocates who consider it the death of reform.

Reform advocates say that the system is already broken and that there's no need to wait any longer, also warning that the insurance industry might be able to game the criteria and prevent the public plan trigger from ever being pulled.

One source familiar with Kerry's unexpected suggestion said that the idea seemed to have little impact on the meeting and that the senators quickly moved on.

Previously, Kerry has expressed strong support for a public option without a trigger so that would be available immediately.

But the Finance Committee is more conservative than the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and getting a public option through without a trigger will be a political challenge. Ranking Republican Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has shown little interest in compromise so far, leaving Maine's Olympia Snowe as the likeliest Republican to cross the committee aisle. Snowe has said she would support a public option but only with a trigger.

The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and Finance bills will be combined once they both move through their respective committees.

A Kerry spokeswoman did not immediately return a request for comment.

Kerry Pushes For Public Option Trigger In Closed-Door Meeting

Hey Judas..... FUCK YOU!

And every other douchebag standing in the way, for that matter

[sadaist]

I feel like I'm supporting him every time I buy Heinz ketchup, but dammit! It is by far the best out there.

[FORD]

Fact is, Teresa Heinz is only a minority shareholder in the Heinz corporation and has very little vote in how the corporation is operated.

Go for their "organic" ketchup though. Uses real sugar instead of the high fructose corn poison. I never use ketchup anymore though. Salsa is much better.

[Guitar Shark]

Do you put salsa on french fries? *shudder*

[letsrock]

Why are they concerned with a trigger or price tag when none of them have come up with a game plan as how to implement any of this.

Its like saying "i'm gonna buy a car for $25,000 no idea which one".

[FORD]

Do you put salsa on french fries? *shudder*

Nah, usually bleu cheese dressing. Or ranch. Or a mixture of the two. Unless I'm at a fish & chips place like Skippers, where the garlic vinegar is good enough.

[Nitro Express]

Skull and Bones Kerry lives very well due to who he married. My brother in law had to rush deliver china and silverware to his rich wife's home in Sun Valley, Idaho for their Christmas dinner. The home is a French chateau that was disassembled and reassembled in Idaho. This guy is living well all ready. He doesn't need the big jet and the White House.

[Nitro Express]

I want to pay for my own healthcare. All I ask from the govt. is to regulate the crooks who jack the prices way above what they should be. We had a real estate bubble due to a lack of banking regulation, now we have a healthcare bubble. But asking the govt. now to fix anything is like telling Eddie Van Halen to quit smoking.

[Nitro Express]

Fact is, Teresa Heinz is only a minority shareholder in the Heinz corporation and has very little vote in how the corporation is operated.

Go for their "organic" ketchup though. Uses real sugar instead of the high fructose corn poison. I never use ketchup anymore though. Salsa is much better.

I haven't had a french fry in a year. I just stopped going to fast food restaurants. If I eat out, it's usually a locally owned resturant that offers something unique or something high end.

[Nitro Express]

I ate sheeps balls last time I went out and ate and before that I was some Greek resturaunt that for some reason had belly dancing on Friday nights and a hooka bar. A Pakistani friend of mine loves the joint. LOL!

[FORD]

I ate sheeps balls last time I went out and ate and before that I was some Greek resturaunt that for some reason had belly dancing on Friday nights and a hooka bar. A Pakistani friend of mine loves the joint. LOL!

More details on the belly dancing, less on the sheep balls!

[Nickdfresh]

Nah, usually bleu cheese dressing. Or ranch. Or a mixture of the two. Unless I'm at a fish & chips place like Skippers, where the garlic vinegar is good enough.

They're not bad German style -with mayo- either...

[Big Train]

Kerry certainly seems like he is running. That off-color crack about wishing Palin was missing instead of Sanford was right out of his 2004 playbook..

[sadaist]

Fact is, Teresa Heinz is only a minority shareholder in the Heinz corporation and has very little vote in how the corporation is operated.

Go for their "organic" ketchup though. Uses real sugar instead of the high fructose corn poison. I never use ketchup anymore though. Salsa is much better.

I'll check out that organic stuff. But I needs my ketchup. Moms meatloaf recipe is to die for.

[Nitro Express]

More details on the belly dancing, less on the sheep balls!

I quite enjoyed the belly dancing. I ate lamb, rice, olives while this chick belly danced around the place. I don't think the place was ran by devout Muslims because we were doing shots of Ouzo afterward and then we smoked a bowl and bragged and told lies while doing so.