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Originally Posted by Sly
The liberals are saying that if the bills do not include a public option, they are going to shoot it down. Does that mean they are against health care reform? No, it means they are against the way the bill is set up.
Nobody is against health care reform. Everybody thinks something must be done. Everybody has ideas on what must be done. The backlash is from people that don't understand what's going on and thinks that things are changing too fast. When the majority of the population has insurance that they are comfortable with and you come at them and say "things are going to change"... those people want to know what's going to change. So far, the Democrats have failed at reaching these people and showing them that nothing in their life will change for the worse. If they can find a way to do that, the whole game could switch pretty quickly.
The Republicans are playing dirty right now with silly media tricks. The Democrats are playing dirty right now with parliamentary and political tricks.
Neither of them are approaching this right.
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Good post. There is no "one" bill. There are several bills and a lot of ideas. Neither side has done a good job of getting out the correct information. The republicans are talking about death panels and rationing care as well as forcing people to drop the coverage they have while using tax payer money for abortions and many democrats of have done a terrible job to putting those myths to rest. To me it shows that most democrats are still wimps. If the shoe were on the other foot and it was a republican controlled senate, house and white house and they were trying to pass a health care bill and the democrats were out spreading lies about it they would attack those democrats without remorse. They would drive them into the dirt and destroy them. The democrats are being too nice and they do nothing. They still act like they want to work with the republicans and want to play nice. The president needs to come to the front here and sit down with the various house and senate leaders and hammer out a bill then get that bill through the house and senate so we know exactly what they are doing and what is real and isn't real.