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Did anyone hear Kerry today (5.00 / 3) (#2)
by inclusiveheart on Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 02:31:40 PM EST
on This Week saying that Clinton's healthcare plan would be a non-starter in Congress because of the mandates?

If two of the "most liberal" Senators in the Democratic Party - one of whom is supposedly committed to healthcare - are predicting that the best we can do even with a Dem Senate and Congress is Obama's plan, then what's going on here?

Kerry's comment has been bugging me all day.  Are our Democratic representatives going to feel obligated to do anything in the next term?  I feel like more and more we are getting talked out of key goals and objectives.

If it's such a non-starter (5.00 / 3) (#3)
by nycstray on Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 02:35:26 PM EST
why are so many people voting for her? Especially low income Dems?

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Why are so many people voting (5.00 / 2) (#7)
by inclusiveheart on Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 02:42:29 PM EST
for Dems becomes my question.  I am a Democrat and will always vote for the Democrat on any ticket - but I am feeling like we are getting set up for a fall lately.  Kennedy played a big role - maybe more as a student - but none the less a big role in Medicare which is a mandated program.  It is also a really good program.  Can anyone imagine what kind of healthcare crisis we'd be facing right now if we also had elderly folks going completely uninsured?  In any case, how is it that he could oppose mandates just because they are mandates.  I appreciate that he might object to mandating purchases from corporate entities, but that isn't what Kerry said.  He simply said it was the mandates that made her plan completely impossible to pass.  I think that is a problem and I think that hanging her proposal on the mandates alone is both misleading and problematic for anyone who might one day seriously try to fix this problem we have.

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being set up for a fall... (5.00 / 1) (#21)
by kredwyn on Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 04:29:32 PM EST
I've been thinking something along that lines.

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Disappointing huh? n/t (5.00 / 1) (#25)
by inclusiveheart on Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 08:37:48 PM EST


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Seriously... (5.00 / 1) (#29)
by kredwyn on Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 09:59:41 PM EST
totally makes me go :-(

On the non-political front...Script Frenzy starts on Tuesday and I'm stumped for an idea.

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I link to that in my latest post (5.00 / 2) (#6)
by Big Tent Democrat on Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 02:42:10 PM EST


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Thanks. (5.00 / 1) (#12)
by inclusiveheart on Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 02:54:43 PM EST
I watched it again and I'm more upset with his comment.

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I was annoyed as well (5.00 / 3) (#13)
by ricosuave on Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 03:07:48 PM EST
Kerry is one of the folks who should be taking a stand on health insurance, not avoiding conflict.  But aside from that, every time one of the Obamaphiles says that mandates are bad, it should be pointed out to them that Obama's plan includes mandates as well.  He just does it for children, but every argument that applies to mandates on everyone applies to mandates on all parents.

And add to that the fact that Obama killed universal healtchare in Illinois.  Instead of fighting for it, he compromised it away and sent it to death by committee.

Yet another example of Obama as a big disappointment on a central democratic issue.

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