by David Safier
Yesterday, Grijalva stood at a microphone in front of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and stated his position on health care. All of it is worth listening to, but here is the passage where he states his bottom line.
We from the beginning have been promoting single payer, and in absence of that . . . we are now saying that we must have a public option that is meaningful, that has Medicare as its provider network, that has Medicare-plus-five as its rate, that we don't negotiate with private insurance companies for the rate on the private option, and that . . . this health reform will not be paid off the backs of small businesses, poor people and working families. [I cut out a few inconsequential verbal stumbles that disrupt the flow of his ideas.]
Agree or disagree with Grijalva's stand — and I basically agree — you know exactly what he wants from health care reform, and you know his current position is a compromise from his original desire for a single payer system. If I had a statement this clear from Giffords, I would be able to agree or disagree with her on the issues rather than having to divine her intentions from general statements filled with vague caveats.
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Nobama, I usually let your comments slide by without comment, or I delete them when they go too far. But I’m leaving your comments up this time, though they rank with your very worst.
You have revealed yourself as a racist and an anti-semite. You should be deeply ashamed of yourself, but I think, since you made your views public, your shame should remain public.
Grijalva speaks for La Raza(The Race)and the Mexican people.
Giffords speaks for the Jewish Business community.
What we need in Congress are people who speak for ALL of us not one fringe group or race!
These politicians voted Against the Nathan Deal Amendment, that would Prevent Health Care Benefits to Illegal Aliens. Simply put–it’s not their BLOODY MONEY! So what! Do they care if taxpayers have to foot the behemoth bill, for anybody who snubs our laws and enters a sovereign country called America? The nationwide parasites are –CHEAP LABOR–businesses who could care less, because they pile up enormous profits. The corporate hierarchy have been having a field day–FOR DECADES. A foreign national gets hurt, their service manager or whoever the underling is, drives the maimed person and relinquishes any responsibility by dumping them on the emergency hospital entranceway. BINGO! nothing to pay!
Perhaps Americans should find some old shoddy clothes, no shave, no haircut and enter every emergency room in our country in the millions? Speak a lot of gibberish and carry no identification with a small splinter in their finger, a touch of a fever or any minor condition. By federal law the hospital will have an emergency on a–EMERGENCY. I am afraid Americans have been Lemmings going over a proverbial cliff, since who knows when? We just keep paying and paying even more to the IRS, to support–ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Try getting free health care in any other country, other than societies in the European Union? A FAT CHANCE! We are literary being taxed to death, to give welfare to the business overlords. These legislators have already tried to weaken E-Verify, local police action 287(g) and now unwinding the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli enforcement law–which worked, but again was never enforced.
Even our Democrats who are trying to engineer health care for every American—INCLUDED 20 PLUS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR LARGE FAMILIES. Here are 29 Judas Iscariot’s, who sold the American people out–for a lot more than 13 pieces of silver? HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY YEAR. Capps (D-CA), Eshoo (D-CA), Harman (D-CA), Matsui (D-CA), McNerney (D-CA), Waxman (D-CA), DeGette (D-CO), Murphy (D-CT), Castor (D-FL), Rush (D-IL), Schakowsky (D-IL), Braley (D-IA), Sarbanes (D-MD), Markey (D-MA), Dingell (D-MI), Stupak (D-MI), Pallone (D-NJ), Weiner (D-NY), Butterfield (D-NC), Space (D-OH), Sutton (D-OH), Doyle (D-PA), Gordon (D-TN), Gonzalez (D-TX), Green (D-TX),Welch (D-VT), Christensen (D-VI), Inslee (D-WA) and Baldwin (D-WI). I’m afraid I would be banned if I used the right epithet, when leaving a comment for these so called lawmakers?
These are the betrayers of–ALL–taxpayers. These 29 traitors gave illegal immigrants the right to pilfer your billfold and purse, while they sit in their Washington office collecting their 6 figure salaries. REMEMBER THEM AND THROW THEM OUT! DEMAND NO AMNESTY! NO FAMILY UNIFICATION KNOWN AS CHAIN MIGRATION! BUILD THE ORIGINAL FENCE! NO MORE HEALTH CARE OR ANY OTHER KIND OF BENEFITS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. CLOSE THE BORDER AND STATION THE NATIONAL GUARD. $2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS, JUST IN RETIREMENT BENEFITS? Learn uncorrupted facts at NUMBERSUSA. For myself and family! I am for any health care re-organization, as long as it doesn’t smell of copious profiteering and corruption, like the majority of private insurers do?
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Here is a link to the letter that the Congressional Progressive Caucus has sent to the Democratic leadership, referenced by Rep. Grijalva.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/in-letter-house-progressives-object-to-blue-dog-public-option-compromise.php?ref=fpa
July 31, 2009
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi The Honorable Henry Waxman
Speaker Chairman
U.S. House of Representatives House Committee on
Energy and Commerce
H-232, The Capitol 2125
Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515 Washington, DC 20515
The Honorable Charles Rangel The Honorable George Miller
Chair Chair
House Committee on Ways and Means House Committee on
Education and Labor
1102 Longworth House Office Building 2181 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515 Washington, DC
20515
Dear Madame Speaker, Chairman Waxman, Chairman Rangel, and Chairman Miller:
We write to voice our opposition to the negotiated health care reform agreement under consideration in the Energy and Commerce Committee.
We regard the agreement reached by Chairman Waxman and several Blue Dog members of the Committee as fundamentally unacceptable. This agreement is not a step forward toward a good health care bill, but a large step backwards. Any bill that does not provide, at a minimum, for a public option with reimbursement rates based on Medicare rates – not negotiated rates – is unacceptable. It would ensure higher costs for the public plan, and would do nothing to achieve the goal of “keeping insurance companies honest,” and their rates down.
To offset the increased costs incurred by adopting the provisions advocated by the Blue Dog members of the Committee, the agreement would reduce subsidies to low- and middle-income families, requiring them to pay a larger portion of their income for insurance premiums, and would impose an unfunded mandate on the states to pay for what were to have been Federal costs.
In short, this agreement will result in the public, both as insurance purchasers and as taxpayers, paying ever higher rates to insurance companies.
We simply cannot vote for such a proposal.
Sincerely,
———
The House Energy and Commerce Committee bill passed on Friday, on a 31-28 vote.
There are 82 CPC members. Along with the members of the black, Hispanic, and Asian Pacific American caucuses, they have consistently vowed over the last several weeks to vote against any health overhaul legislation that excludes a “robust” public option. Combined, they represent a bloc of at least 120 members. There are 51 Blue Dogs.