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Bye bye Hippy Harry you old fool.

Republicans are going to kick and scream as much as possible to stop the forward progress.

Public option will lead to a single payer system that the majority of Americans do not want. I hope Harry Reid and the public option disappear into the sunset together!! Democrats=Enablers..

more crooks in the pie

45,000 Americans die every year because they do not have healthcare!

IF 45,000 Americans were dying because of terrorist attacks the GOP would be outraged and demand we nuke the Middle-East.

However, 45,000 Americans die every year because they lack healthcare and the GOP would rather they continue to die, than do the moral and just thing!

GOP is for Big Insurance, Big Pharma and Big Oil...... they do not care about YOU, America!

We need a single payer system or at the very LEAST a public option.
The Insurance Companies have been killing the American people for to long.

Maybe they'll turn it into a proposal that will actually benefit people. I think it needs a public option for low-income and those without a private option, no fines or penalties and no tax increases.

"What happens next in health care reform?"

We vote you ALL out of office, Dems and Republicans alike... and then we dismantle the federal government leviathan that has grown up in the swamps of DC.

there has to be public option!
Without public option we will be in worse shape.
Insurance companies will be able to charge higher rates.
My insurance just went up 30% again in one year.
I am a small business owner that covers health insurance for my employees.
I wouldn't mind paying the premiums if my business was up by 30% this year.
I am forced to take insurance with higher deductible and more out of pocket.
How long can us small businesses afford these rates.

americans have spoken, no public option wanted!

Now is the time to pass a single payer non-profit universal health care bill. Because the republicans and for profit insurance will never support any bill regardless of what is in it.

why give subsidies to the for profit insurance companies. just have open enrollment into medicare and if a subsidies is needed then give it to medicare.

Our health should not now or anytime be for profit.

What happens next? The Democrats continue to fight over the public option. Liberals vs Blue Dogs. But contiune to blame Republicans for obstructing. Notice no Republicans were invited to this private meeting, and the Dems don't have to invite them if they don't want to. Obama just can't lie and pretend whatever bill may get passed is bipartisian. Republicans are not invited to particapate.

Stop believing the polls Fox Lies puts out there. Facts are not their strong suit.

If you pass this crap. Then have enough backbone to use the same plan.

No matter who is running what meeting in private or in public, it must have the Public Option clause included in it. Because any reform without the Public Option is not a Reform at all.

What happens next? I'll tell you what BETTER happen next is to remove the mandates forcing people to buy insurance ( Baucus's gift to the health insurance empire) and replacing it with a strong, single payer, public option! Whether or not that actually happens is anyone's guess at this point, which is something that no true American should be proud of right now! How sad!

We put the public option into the bill, pass it and move on. If that isn't what happens, Reid, your political career is over.

How can Reid get away with adding an Amendment to keep people in Neveda from paying the increase on health benefits,but allowing the rest of the states to pay it. Looks like we will be paying for Dirty Harry's sheeple to have a free ride.

Next, you will have to tell the people who voted for you they will have to learn how to live with less money and get nothing in return.

the senate and house voting it down would be the appropriate next step. long live free market capitalism.

A conference of losing leftists liberals headed by a soon to be big loser.

What happens next is for Harry to find a backbone and do his job as Majority Leader and get all the democrats to back a strong Public Option. He hasn't been exactly overwhelming lately, even though I know that's his style, laid back. If he wants to get re-elected he better do what the democrats were sent to Washington to do, otherwise we'll find another democrat to take his place who will do what 65% of the American public wants and demands.

I think we are headed toward a single payer plan. The smoke and mirrors are designed to give the insurance companies competition, but Reid and Obama..........

The dems try to stick in a public option, the bill loses support and no health care reform gets passed this year OR
The dems go nuclear and try to pass a bill with the public option by a simple majority, the public becomes outraged and the new Republican congress repeals the law before it goes into effect.

With that bunch in attendance, nothing good. Democrats take notice, 44% are for public option, 50% against............that means the majority of us do NOT want it. Those who are screaming for it are looking for another entitlement paid for by others and we simply cannot afford another monkey on our backs.

Finally, some concerted action! Go Dems, do this thing for America!

The only thing I ask is a mechanism bounding the government's role, fiscally, and management-wise. We do not want to put Insurance out of business; we want to keep what they do well and leave out what they do greedily. If this means a Wall Street-related adjustment, so be it; AIG's reported bonuses, nearly $2B of our bailout moneys, show they are not to be left to their own devices.

Time to dump both the Democrats and Republicans, and build a party that actually does the will of the people.

I do NOT want to be forced to carry insurance unless there is a public option. Listen to us, we want a public option!!!

We can hope that the GOP with its program of hate and "No" to all progress is beginning to realize that health care will win now in in 2010. Let's get it done.