Friday, September 4, 2009
Cohen Says He Could Vote for a Health-Care Bill Without a Public Option
Posted by Jackson Baker on Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:40 PM
- JB
- Rep. Steve Cohen
“Let’s see what bill comes to the floor. If it’s a bill that comes up that is a better health-care program than exists today and is something that has an opportunity for more health- care centers and more family docs and can eliminate pre-existing conditions and get wellness programs and all those things, it would be better than what we have today, and I could support it.”
As he has before, Cohen stressed his preference: “I’d rather — I want a public option, I’ve strongly lobbied for a public option.” But he said he wouldn’t vote to kill a bill without a public-option provision that had the other characteristics he’d cited. “If you did that, there are a lot of bills that you might not have voted for that weren’t perfect. The perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of the good.”
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That shriek of joy you just heard came from Banneker Estates, where Willie Herenton realized that Steve Cohen handed him a real campaign issue on a silver platter. so much for Cohen's re-election in 2010.
Another one going down! If Willie is willing to listen to voters on this issue, I will vote for him-- and that will be hard!
Chuckles....
Thinking that Herenton will actually run on the issues, or give a damn about his opponent's positions, ignores his MO for the last 20 years..
I guess Cohen got his orders.
Federal Government Health care is not a right and is not constitutional, the Republican Congress in 2003 that decided to subsidize private health insurers under Medicaid Advantage, which costs taxpayers an average of 13 percent more per beneficiary than the government-run program. The same Republican Congress passed the prescription drug benefit add-on to Medicare that President George W. Bush so enthusiastically championed, creating the largest expansion of the welfare state since LBJ’s “Great Society.”
And now the Republicans have announced from the Republican National Committee, a brand new “Health Care Bill of Rights for Seniors.”
Will it ever end.
This is such a joke. Congressman Cohen knows that there is not a chance in Hades of a public option bill being passed in The House. He has ciphered a way to come out on top of a disastrous piece of legislation proposed by President Obama. He will promise his constituents that he can support a non public option health care package. Is anyone shocked? As for "da Mayor"...who cares? I believe that the public has seen through his motives and candidacy as being beneficial only to Willie.
Zebra, I think you meant the Senate, not the House. The votes for a bill with a public option have always been there in the House.
Steve, did your cosponsorship of HR 676 mean nothing?
Progressives who busted their asses last year to get Obama, and by coat tails, Cohen, elected have been sandbagged and sold to the highest insurance company and Big Pharma bidder. The Dems have cut their own throats. America is FUBAR.
@rantboy
Progressives who learn from history should expect to be betrayed by liberals intent on doing business as usual.
Steve: Please, resign from the Progressive Caucus, 'cause you ain't a progressive no mo. I wonder; is there a "sell-out" caucus in the House? Oh yeah, it's called the Democratic Party.
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