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we need the public option.

Some of us may have voted for Obama

but we are not waiting tfor the President to get this change going.

We the People are taking it back from the Insurance Billionaires

Health Care Reform NOW

Strong Public Option NOW

America is tired of living in Medieva Fiefdoms, America seeks a Future.

Nobody is commenting????????

President Obama is going to pass this bill WITH a PUBLIC OPTION!!! He should realize that the far-right LOONEY TOONS are not going to agree with anything he tries to pass. So Mr. President, make the PUBLIC OPTION be the only OPTION and leave those cartoon characters behind!!!

Obama is a little tied up with the Chicago Olympic bid; you know, his trip with the wife and Oprah. To help his pals in Chicago.

Obama figured if he gets a second term the Olympics in Chicago would be his crowning achievement.

Why worry about Afganistan?

Why worry about healthcare, double digit unemployment, Iranian missles and nukes.

Please pass the bill with the public option!!! Republicans would rather pay for a war based on a lie rather than save someone's life.

Thats because Obama is a Democrat, and Democrats are famous for being easily bullied into things! Having a backbone is not something their known for! Why don't you tell the American people something that we don't know and haven't known for quite some time now! This is not news!!

Why not add to the bill a test public option that can be tried out in a few states first. If people in other states want their state to join the program, then they can vote in the next election on whether they want it or not.

Can anyone explain why the Iraqi Constitution July 2005, DRAFTED WITH THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, contains Article 31 – UNIVERSAL GOVERNMENT FUNDED HEALTH CARE FOR ALL IRAQIS – AS A RIGHT??? Why then wouldn't that benefit be offered to Americans?

I want a public option, I am a health care provider over 50 and most of my colleagues want a public option. Look at the polls, a majority of Americans want a public option. The latest Robert Wood Johnson poll shows more than two thirds of doctors want a public option. Insurance companies do not want a public option and they are paying our elected officials to ignor the will of the people. Keep fighting Rockefeller, America needs you. I have called my Senator Roberts office, they are rude if you don't agree with him. Several fellow health care providers have also called but Roberts is not listening to Kansans so speak up for us Rockefeller.

Fear not my American friends... I have a firm belief that a health bill WITH A PUBLIC OPTION will be the one that get's through for you. This early vote will highlight, with bright yellow marker, those, particularly Democrats, who are holding it back. I'm sure people will give them a resonating earful – loud enough to change minds

God bless you, Senator. You were doing Christ's work, too bad the Christless republicans thwarted your humanitarian efforts.

Shame on them.

Anyone who has to wait until he has two other "world leaders" walking behind him on an international stage before he announces something he has known for a long time – that Iraq is up to no good, has always been up to no good and will continue to be up to no good is a very weak leader. It's time to realize that Obama should have never been elected President – he does not have what it takes, including experience.

You have got to be kidding me right???? Hell, Obama did everything he could, its you weak DEMOCRAPS that should foot the blame. Grow a pair then speak.

Obama is pushing the Olympics instead of JOBS.

Obama LIES ABOUT JOBS.

Obama is just another one taking a free ride on the tax payers money.

Obama LIES.

Everyone should deposit the money that they dole out to insurance companies every month in their personal bank accounts. Then when and if the need arises you have enough to pay a doctor if you are sick. If not the moneys still yours. How simple is that? Who needs to send hefty checks to insurance companies? That will teach the insurance
companies to stop ripping off the public. They do it because we LET them. That's been my theory for 50 years. The only one who has gotten rich off of my money is ME.

Yeah.......... I'm a little disappointed too.

I'm disappointed in the 3 democrats that voted against the public option in committee. I am also disappointed that they make SO MUCH MONEY from Blue Cross! Baucus gets more from them than all of his constituents combined!

Hey he's to busy trying to get the olympics for they windy city.

My guess is that Obama has taken such a beating in public opinion recently that he knows that coming on strong now demanding a Public Option would be just what the Republicans need. As if they haven't already got enough prime ammunition to make some great campaigns in 2010 and 2012 already. Just, why add more?

Good Luck with that, Jay.
You're being played. Just like the rest of us.

Get used to disappointment, there's more to come.

When are the liberal democrats going to understand that American DOES NOT want the public option. These guys are really hard headed.

Does this mean there will be an emergency membership club meeting tonight? Just curious.

Obama take a stand on something? Sure, like that would happen. Obama is the ultimate compromiser. He'll compromise until there is nothing left. Just like he's doing in the health care reform legislation.

Obama doesn't push hard for anything. He outsources everything and stands on the sidelines and votes "present" so he can fool his Democrat follower fools that he didn't have anything to do with it. He is not a leader, he is following what the leaders of the House and Senate tell him.

This is the single biggest disappointment I have with the President, who overall is doing an excellent job. He needed to take control of this argument from day one, and he needed to insist on a public option – it was part of his campaign objectives and the main reason he got my vote. This is a very sad day, because it looks like the private insurers have won. To all the coward Democrats and lying Republicans who caused this, I hope to hell your constituents kick you to the curb when their premiums continue to skyrocket and when their health care continues to be rationed and denied by the greedy insurers. What came out of the Senate today is NOT reform. It's a gift to the insurance lobby.

Dear Senator Reid and Pelosi, please shove this healthcare plan with the public down the republicans throats. We have suffered for 8 years behind a lying, conniving, backstabbing losers. The republicans are just like enron...stealing money from the people. They stole people for the war in Iraq that was based on a lie. It's time to shove the public option through Obama promised us!!

Obozo is a weanie – lucky for us.

You are not the only one that is disappointed that there is no public option Mr Rockefeller

There are a lot of deserving Americans that feel the same way

Amazing how Senators and Congressman feel that their own publicly funded health insurance is good enough for themselves, but apparently feel that they are somehow better than we regular Americans

Simply Amazing ... the selfishness of it all

Gotta give Obama credit for knowing Public Option didn't stand a chance and backing away from a losing venture. Now if he would only get a clue on the economy and unemployment!

public option gone!

I Guess on behalf of thousands of Canadian and international companies I could thank you for making sure that most of your companies can't compete with our factories – with rising health care costs for your employers and the high US dollar many Amercians will be out of jobs...in fact this month alone we exapnded our consumer spending while yours declined – plus our jobs are on the rise – yours are struggling to hold on!!!

check out the expansion of the auto industry Canada in the last two monthsa

you have nobody to blame but yourselfs...as usual

To the million of Americans who will be denied helath care when they need it the most our heart goes out do you – the very best to you.

Too bad – the rest of us are disappointed that any of these idiots are pushing for government rationed health care or are forced to purchase health care if we chose not to have it.

I'm more than a little bit disappointed with President Obama's lack of leadership on pushing the public option. I think our President is a decent, hardworking man – who's having a hard time coming to grips with just how dishonest, manipulative and downright wrong his Republican opponents are.

It's always hard to fathom something that you in a never years would dream of doing. In this case, Obama is having a hard time with the fact that the Republicans care about regaining power more than anything – and that they don’t care if they take down our country in the process.

President Obama needs to remember one of his rallying cries from the campaign: Fired up and Ready to Go!

That's what the American people are in regard to health care reform: Fired up and ready for you to lead us, Mr. President! We will follow you!

We want health care reform with a public option NOW!

We the MAJORITY of Americans are happy with the failure of the public option. It is NOT the reform we want. Get serious and fix the system, not screw it up more. Every Legal citizen needs the right to buy an affordable health care plan, but they don't have the right for FREE tax payer provided health care. It is NOT up to the government to take care of YOU!

This is a victory for the American Citizens. More than 50% of Americans were against of the Public Option, it would have been a disaster for our health care. Time for our elected officials to get serious about health care and work on reforming the insurance industry, making health care affordable and available for all who want it, to purchase it. Allow insurance companies to go across state lines and work on reducing malpractice lawsuits that have no merit. Government needs to stay out of the health care business.

Hey Rockefeller .... how do the wheels of the Obama-bus taste??

You are the expendable tool. Obama gets you to do the dirty work to push for a "Public Option".... and when public opinion turns – YOU'RE left holding the bag.

LMAO...

65% of Americans support the public option. Why are democrats always, always shooting themselves in the foot ? We need the public option, this is the only reform worthwhile, the rest is pure distraction.

me too,,,the dems need to support obama on this now

I'm disappointed too, but it can't be helped. Despite the Republican's juvinile tactics, Obama is their President too.

People like Rockefeller are looney liberals with no sense of what people want and what is good for people. It looks like he is living on mars. Majority people of america do not want a public option ( I bet most of the liberals supporting it do not know what it means). If you want real choice and competition, public option should have to negotiate rates with doctors and hospitals, and not have medicare rates. People have to work for insurance, it is not welfare. These liberal lunatics should be defeated next elections.

Sadly the rich put millions into defeating it while the regular folks get zero representation from those they elected.

OH! dont try to blame this on President Obama i have seen him at work on the campaign trail time and time again and he even went in front of congress to try to get this done. And then what does congress do fuss and fight with each other about whats in it for them, so they can win the next election. From my calculation doesnt the Democrats have the majority so what there excuse. Its not about whats best for America anymore now is whats best for the party.

Why is it that the overeducated, under worked rich elite of the New England States always claim they speak for the "common man". These morons have never worked a single day in their mostly worthless lives. They contribute absolutely nothing to America, they live off their ancestors money and believe they have something to say that any sane, rational human being wants to hear. I say to Rockefeller " If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen." Samuel Adams, Free American.

Yeah, it's crunch time and Obama is out of the country. I'm disappointed too, because without a public option, this bill will do nothing to help those who need it.

It is a shame that Mad Max made us wait 2 months for nothing.

As an originally argent supporter of Obama, I'll just say I'm with Rockefeller...

Obama has only shown luke warm support for what he originally said was indispensible. Now there are reports the White House has assured the insurance lobby the final bill won't have the public option.

That report had better be wrong. If it is true, Obama will not be re-elected. Mark my words on that... We on the left will not vote for him anymore than the right supported Bush I after violating his 'read my lips' pledge.

The problem is not what the president has to say about the public option. The real problem is the "Blue Dog" democrats who are not listening to their constituents by supporting the public option.

It's time for the President to get involved and let congress know what needs to be in any bill that he signs. Healthcare premiums have doubled over the last 10 years. Enough is enough. In his speech to congress on health care, he said that a public option may be needed as a temporary measure while the co-op/exchange ideas are put into place. Once they are in place, he said that the public option might still be needed for a very small percentage (I've seen estimates of about 4% of those who are un-insured now). Why has that changed? Public option or not, the most important thing to me about the healthcare bill is that its provisions get worked on immediately. We can't have a bill passed that won't take effect for years. Even though the Republicans deny it, the healthcare program is broken, and needs to be fixed.

Why does Obama have to do everything? Why don't others in the Senate who really want a Public Option vocalize it? These politicos since the advent of Obama have become lazy and complacent. One person carrying the weight with no visible of support from his "support team". They've become like whining leeches. Parasitic in fact. What a hell of a job this President has. I do not envy him one iota.

"Your President". Thank goodness. Not mine... You have a Boy Scout..