A New Member of the Coalition

Posted on 06/25/2009 at 4:07 pm by Bob Cesca

Via a reader, Senator John Kerry joins the Coalition of the Corrupt and Spineless. Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim reports:

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.

Ten years?!

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.

The trigger is as good as no public option at all. Ten years gives Congress — and even a new administration — plenty of time to repeal the trigger before it even kicks in. Meanwhile, in that time, we’d all be required by law to buy private health insurance.

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  • roxsteady

    Fuck off John! I’m sick of you spineless bastards. When I call his office I’m going to let him know as well that any Dem who doesn’t support the public plan will never get a vote from me ever again and I’m not kidding!

  • midad

    GOOD NEWS!! Just got through talking to Sen. KErry’s office and the report is FALSE! Kerry said if it were up to him, there would be a public option for health care tomorrow.

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    Bob,That feeling you are feeling? The feeling of helplessness? That’s what brought me to Independence. Once I realized how owned both parties were by special interests, I knew that REAL change was only possible outside of the two parties.I’m not gloating. I hate what you’re feeling. I’m feeling it, too, but the truth is, you feel as helpless as the rest of us as we watch Dems and Repubs TOTALLY ignore the will of the people in order to suck the collective dick of their campaign and party financiers.Bob, the arrogance of these people is immeasurable. Or maybe it’s ignorance. Maybe they really are completely unaware that what they are doing is exposing them so blatantly as whores.Heck, even whores have more morals than our elected officials.It’s shameful. I’m sick of it. It makes me want to bitch slap one of them. Or many of them. I won’t waste my time with phone calls or emails any more. They all receive the same scripted bullshit answer. I can get a blowup doll to be more responsive than my congressmen or senators.I’d need to see a bill passed with a real public option before I’ll stop believing that this entire thing is being staged so that the two parties can reap a windfall in campaign donations by scaring the piss out of health insurers.

  • Skippy

    Well, I hope that’s true midad – and as our flap over Emanuel turned out to be much ado about not very much, it’s possible that this could also indeed be a mistaken report. *crosses fingers*All those Senators who we know for sure to be members of this corrupt club should be voted out in their next primaries.

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    Great, Kerry still wants the public option.Do you get the feeling that all of these elected officials are talking out of both sides of their mouths?I’m thinking of moving to Africa.

  • lovetheblue

    “Do you get the feeling that all of these elected officials are talking out of both sides of their mouths?”At this point, I don’t believe a fucking thing they say from one day to another.I’ve disagreed with alot you’ve written, PPP, but lately I tend to AGREE with you more so than not. At this point I’m just discouraged as hell.

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    Its all smoke and mirrors until a bill emerges and is actually voted on.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

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    Sen. Kerry strongly supports a robust public option and has been pushing for it since day one of this debate. When he ran for president, he campaigned on a public option and everywhere he went he reminded the country that Congress shouldn’t deny them the public health care that Members of Congress give themselves. The past five years have only strengthened that conviction. Any suggestion that he prefers proposals that would delay or trigger the implementation of a public plan is outright false, end of story.

    He was on MSNBC yesterday morning and stated very strongly he supported a public option. That’s not anything but straight from his mouth.He ran on it when he ran for president years ago. I followed him very closely, I met John Kerry and was very taken with him.I don’t believe he would do anything to not push for this. I think someone is blowing smoke.