Buffalo Boy's Blog

Scott Brown, the republican candidate who won Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts, didn't win because democrats or liberals changed sides, he won because they stayed home. This had nothing to do with out bad the current healthcare bills are, it had everything to do with the fact that they don't do enough for liberals and democrats and they sent a message by staying home. Independents sent up a big middle finger to Obama and voted for Brown because they figure they won't get healthcare anyway.

So my question is this: Mr. Obama, with just about every independent voter, every liberal and democrat out there at your feet, why did you screw up healthcare? You screwed it by not going for the gusto from the start.

When you go in to negotiate your salary at your job you don't go in to negotiate at your current salary. Thats exactly where we started. Obama should have started with single payer, Medicare for all and that would have had all of us in support.

The proposal for single payer medicare for all is on the Physicians for National Health Program website and its about 8 pages long, not thousands of pages. It would have been simple to explain and would have avoided all the fear mongering by Repukes who did nothing to contribute to whats on the table except bitchfest and teabag anything good out of the bill including the only sign of hope, the public option right out of it.

Mr. Obama, we are pissed off as liberals and democrats, not because we don't believe in you, but we believe you are weak right now. Be strong and go for what we voted you in for, CHANGE!. This wishy washy bipartisan crap has to stop. Where is Howard Dean when we need him? He was on the TV a few weeks ago but geez Mr. Dean get in the President's ear a little and steer him in the right direction.

This mess could have been avoided last February by going all the way on Healthcare. Now its a cluster fuck and we may not get any reform. Have any of you looked at your healthcare premiums lately? They are going up and up and up, where does it stop?

If Obama had been strong on healthcare and started with single payer we'd be energized and probably would have had Joe Liebermans head on a platter and Ted Kennedy's Senate seat would be safe and in the hands of a democrat.

If you start at single payer and negotiate to public option everyone is happy. Maybe we don't get the single payer that we want but its a step in the right direction. Now we have an insurance bill that continues to benefit the private insurance companies and decreases Medicare. Its maddening and I put all the blame on Obama, get some guts man. This was year one, you have three more years to get this done. Anyone who says that healthcare reform is dead needs to be taken out and beaten, its not dead, its just a bad bill, start over and insist on single payer from the get go.