No public option = No Mandate.

[Cant trust em]

If a mandate is even in the picture it must come with the public option.

That is the bottom line.

[Mojambo]

1. That's been my line.

If they try to pass a mandate without an EFFECTIVE public option I will urge my representatives to defeat it.

[Cant trust em]

5. That is probably the only bill that I'd want the president to veto.

Most other options being discussed would still move the ball forward.

This one is definitely a step in the opposite direction.

[Teaser]

2. your bottom line, not mine.

.

[Hello_Kitty]

3. What is yours?

[imdjh]

14. I'm still waiting, how about you?

[imdjh]

10. What is yours?

[Justitia]

4. Bang! There it is! Thank God people understand this. I'm with you.

I don't want to criminalize the uninsured, nor do I have a political deathwish.

:toast:

[Laelth]

6. +1 n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[Cant trust em]

7. It's effectively saying...

"Hey, you're poor and having a hard time. Let's slap a fine on you too."

[havocmom]

8. Yep. Otherwise, we have enslaving working class people, FURTHER, to corporations

and that, would be fascism.

[jimlup]

9. Absolutely!

I'm sorry but this talk of the liberals sucking it up is BULLSHIT! This is a more important issue to us than that. Time to put up a Public Option or lose our support - IT IS THAT SIMPLE.

[Fumesucker]

11. "I can envision a day when you will have to show proof of insurance at the job interview".

-Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries.

Hillary wasn't psychic, she just knows the beltway boys..

A mandate is where we are headed and the public option will be on a trigger with the safety welded on, if we get one at all.

[slipslidingaway]

12. AHIP & BCBSA support guaranteed issue and individual mandate

http://pnhp.org/blog/2008/11/20/ahip-bcbsa-support-guaranteed-issue-and-individual-mandate/

"Health Plans Propose Guaranteed Coverage for Pre-Existing Conditions and Individual Coverage Mandate

AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans)

November 19, 2008

Summary of AHIP’s Proposal to Guarantee Coverage for Pre-existing Conditions and Promote Affordability in the Individual Insurance Market:

Guarantee-issue coverage with no pre-existing condition exclusions;

Establish an individual coverage requirement with an insurance coverage verification system, an automatic enrollment process and effective enforcement of the requirement that all individuals purchase and maintain coverage;
...."

[imdjh]

15. Most of the commercials I have seen are from insurance companies who want to fix the problem.

ISn't that amazing? They want to fix the problem. They want to be bipartisan. Sure they do.

[slipslidingaway]

16. It sure is amazing, who knew they were so caring! n/t

[slipslidingaway]

13. AHIP commercial for health care reform - "If everyone is covered..."

equals mandate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R36YJl8SagU