Once Upon a Time, Liberals Hated the Individual Health Insurance Mandate

[ProSense]

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Dance all you want to, I won't dislike you for it, but it has been a GOP plan for over 20 years

I am simply incapable of supporting Corporate first Republican measures no matter how they are re-branded and dressed up.

I can't do the 180 from progressive ideas without snapping my spine.
Third way Democrats lack a spine so it is much easier for them.

...dancing with common sense.

Rep. Anthony Weiner: ‘Howard Dean Is Wrong,’ We Shouldn’t ‘Let The Perfect Be The Enemy Of The Good’

By Igor Volsky

This morning, single-payer advocate and public option supporter Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) defended the merged Senate bill, arguing that it’s still worth passing. “It’s not that they got a bad bill on their hands, it’s a pretty good bill,” Weiner said. “I think that Howard Dean is wrong. And I don’t think we should let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”

Asked “what is it in this bill that’s going to lower costs and provide more choice” since Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) insisted on stripping the bill of the public option and the Medicare buy-in provision, Weiner argued that covering more Americans would minimize the cost shift from the uninsured:

WEINER: No, that’s easy. I mean frankly, when you have 30 million people who are uninsured today going into hospital emergency rooms getting very expensive costs, passing along the burden. We in New York City pay $6 billion what could be in extra taxes for the uninsured. Theoretically, those people are going to be covered now, so they’re going to get better health care than they’re getting today.

O’DONNELL: How if there is no public option?

WEINER: I understand there is no public option but there are 30 million people who are going to be getting health insurance who don’t have it today. Those people are going to be getting more efficient less expensive care, not passing onto you and me higher costs. That’s a good thing. That’s an unvarnished good thing.

Watch it:

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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2009/12/18/171132/weiner-dean/

Kucinich on the Affordable Care Act: "I hope the law is upheld."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002503243

Bernie Sanders: The Court and Health Care
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002496175

Damn "Third way Democrats"