Dean: "There Will Be Primaries" For Dems Who Vote Against Public Option

Former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean fired one of the clearest warning shots at hesitant Democratic lawmakers on Thursday. He said that if the party was unable to produce a health care bill with a public plan, there would be electoral consequences.

Dean insists on Democratic discipline

"I do think there will be primaries as the result of all this, if the bill doesn't pass with a public option," Dean said, in a phone interview with the Huffington Post.
The former Vermont governor added the caveat that he thought "cooler heads" would ultimately prevail and that a government run option for insurance coverage would be passed.

Dean, who is a keynote speaker at the Netroots Nation conference at Pittsburgh this week. He was "in favor" of holding recalcitrant senators and congressman accountable on health care related issues.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/13/dean-there-will-be-primar_n_258813.html


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Bill Maher: private health care "soulless vampires making money off human pain

How about this for a New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit. It used to be that there were some services and institutions so vital to our nation that they were exempt from market pressures. Some things we just didn't do for money. The United States always defined capitalism, but it didn't used to define us. But now it's becoming all that we are.


Did you know, for example, that there was a time when being called a "war profiteer" was a bad thing? But now our war zones are dominated by private contractors and mercenaries who work for corporations. There are more private contractors in Iraq than American troops, and we pay them generous salaries to do jobs the troops used to do for themselves ­-- like laundry. War is not supposed to turn a profit, but our wars have become boondoggles for weapons manufacturers and connected civilian contractors.

Prisons used to be a non-profit business, too. And for good reason --­ who the hell wants to own a prison? By definition you're going to have trouble with the tenants. But now prisons are big business. A company called the Corrections Corporation of America is on the New York Stock Exchange, which is convenient since that's where all the real crime is happening anyway.

The CCA and similar corporations actually lobby Congress for stiffer sentencing laws so they can lock more people up and make more money. That's why America has the world;s largest prison population ­-- because actually rehabilitating people would have a negative impact on the bottom line.

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Majority of Americans favor US health care reform

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Another 'Lucky Ducky' welfare recipient comes forward on health care

ANNANDALE, Va. — President Barack Obama hugged a cancer patient Wednesday  during an emotional forum on the nation's health care system.

Debby Smith, 53, of Appalachia, Va., a volunteer for Obama's political operation, fought tears as she told Obama about her kidney cancer and her inability to obtain health insurance or hold a job.She hit the big time because she was able to get food stamps.

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