I don't know.  That's deeper in the weeds than I've gotten so far on
the legislation.


On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Michael Perelman
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Would the trigger represent a way to meet his requirements?  Would the
> trigger come in 3 years after he is gone?
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:17:43PM -0400, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
>> Putting on my rose-colored glasses, I think people may be
>> misinterpreting BHO's
>> apparent equivocation about the public option.  The way he layed it
>> out was an
>> explicit challenge to the other side to propose some alternative way
>> of generating
>> competition -- multiple providers -- where there currently is none.
>> There is no such way.
>> Note also BHO's definition of lack of competition was markets with as
>> few as five providers
>> Of health insurance.  That's a pretty broad characterization.  It
>> makes it easy to
>> justify a public option.
>>
>> Bottom line is the White House wants a bill and if they have to
>> relinquish the
>> public option, which in its present form(s) is not that big a deal,
>> they will.
>> And I don't think you could blame them.  A health insurance exchange
>> for the
>> uninsured and the uninsurable would be a good thing.
>>
>> I was more concerned about the pledge to veto anything that added "a
>> dime" to the
>> deficit.  That looks like a tough thing to wiggle out of.  Kind of
>> like his campaign
>> promise to not raise any taxes on anybody earning less than $250K.
>>
>>
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