public option
It begins thusly: Bill O’Reilly announces that it is a good thing the public option is dead, because now the President can work on making sure the government will start to provide cost-effective, reliable health care for people who cannot afford private insurance. And then some gal from the Heritage Foundation is like, “Hmm, are [...]
Confusing self-obstructionist dildo Max Baucus, whose Senate Finance Committee will wait another two weeks before talking again while the media continues to institutionalize its curiously prophetic “how comprehensive health care reform died this time” narrative, got on a conference call with the angry hippies recently and told them, “I want a public option, too!” Someone [...]
TUT TUT, HOWARD DEAN, TUT, TUT: It’s nice that Howard Dean keeps going on the teevee to argue for strong, progressive health care reforms, but we agree with young communist Ezra Klein that it’s… snooty, maybe?.. for Dean to keep blaring his “no public option, no point in health care reform” ultimatum when his own [...]
So once upon a time the inventor of English decided it would be a very clever thing to spell certain dirty(ish) words very much like certain very chaste words. Now as a result, the Punic Wars are constantly and mistakenly referred to as the Pubic Wars, members of the GOP must stress that they are [...]
FOR THOSE MOURNING THE DEATH OF THE PUBLIC OPTION: Here, read this thing by our old flame Nate Silver, who basically argues that the fate of a public competitor to private insurance was always pretty precarious. At any rate the poor old public option is probably not worth saving at this point, lest we throw [...]
If universal health care doesn’t scare the shit out of you, just imagine if there was a public option for extinguishing fires, and rescuing kittens from tree branches! Are your panties wet with horror? [Matt Yglesias] Next time you play a game of Guess Who, ask this winning question: “Is your person a birther?” If [...]
Your Wonkette Intern spent a delightful afternoon this past Tuesday with famed Obama apostle Howard Dean, who preached the Health Care gospel and even cured leprosy with his gentle touch. The sermon was hosted by none other than Kremlin subsidiary Campus Progress — surprise, surprise!
It’s just past four o’clock, so get in your comfy chair because it’s time for your Wonkette Tuesday New Health Care Reform Proposals Update! Today we discuss the Max Baucus-favored “TRIGGER COMPROMISE,” in which a public health care option would only come into play when private insurance companies fail to meet certain coverage requirements. Let’s [...]
