Tuesday August 18, 2009, 9:23 pm
CODE BLUERockefeller, Feingold, Pelosi Call Public Option Essential
Don't Panic. Howard Dean Says Bill Will Pass - With The Public Option

Gibbs: Nothing Has Changed, We Are Still Expecting The Public Option


The News of Its Death Is Greatly Exaggerated

Tuesday August 18, 2009, 9:54 pm
Let's do this already!

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 1:27 am
President Obama needs to hear from us about the public option.

If we don't make a stand now for a public option, the Obama administration may hedge on its plan for health care reform.

This weekend, the Obama administration indicated that it might be open to passing health care reform without any provision for a public insurance option similar to Medicare that could compete with private insurance companies.

President Obama said that a public option was just a "sliver" of his plan and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius went so far as to say that the public option was not an "essential" part of reform.


The comments this weekend by the president and Secretary Sebelius rhetorically pave the way for the Obama administration to cave on a meaningful public option and instead accept toothless regional health care co-ops that would be unable to compete with insurance companies and keep them honest.

Help us remind President Obama that part of the reason he won the presidency was his plan to enact major health care reform that included a public option...

The petition reads:

President Obama:

When it comes to health care reform, the public option is not optional. You campaigned on change and on a health care plan that included a public option. But aside from single payer, a health care bill without a robust public option is just more of the same. If you are sincere about supporting the public plan, tell Congress and the voters that you will not sign a bill without a robust public option similar to Medicare.

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 5:21 am
Thanks David.

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 7:45 am
Signed. Thanks David.

I just signed a petition to tell President Obama that the public option is not optional and that he should tell Congress and the voters that he will not sign a bill without a robust public option similar to Medicare.

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 12:49 pm
NO Compromise on HEALTHCARE! AMERICANS "DEMAND" THAT "THEIR" WILL BE DONE, not the will of insurers and their ilk! "We" American's are entitled to a fair, free choice, no obstacles what-so-ever, HEALTHCARE program.....Nothing else will suffice!

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 7:12 pm
END health care for profit NOW.

Thursday August 20, 2009, 6:16 am
If profit was removed, healthcare would greatly improve to include alternative healthier and less expensive treatments. As it stands now......there is a big cow and many people trying to get up there to milk it.

Thursday August 20, 2009, 1:18 pm
signed...good job.

Thursday August 20, 2009, 3:46 pm
Signed Thanks David

Friday August 21, 2009, 2:10 am
Hopefully they can come to an amicable arrangement that would suit all parties at the end of the day from all walks of life... that would be fair and resonable

Friday August 21, 2009, 6:35 am
Many thanks for signing guys...Just a quick little story to bring a smile to your faces in a moment of gloom?...

David Buchan has been suspended from care2 for reason or reasons unknown...(Some people have absolutely NO sense of humour)...And so I, Grigori Rasputin, felt obliged to fill his shoes in the interim...Should he be reinstated, I will go away...

Well folks, if the trolls can re-invent themselves, so can David! :-)...David and I wish you the very best and if you were on his 'friend' list he would very much appreciate a new friend request from you...

If you cannot see where this is coming from, don't bother because David has a sense of humour and you don't...Luv ya kiddies! XO :-)

Friday August 21, 2009, 9:32 am
Grigori...you can let David know I have sent a message to my contacts to relink with him. Cheers!

Friday August 21, 2009, 2:45 pm
I'm sending you many stars David Buchan :) even though I was told that I can't :P
And you're still on my friends' list so I guess you weren't suspended for long. How could they, when you're the spirit of the Care2 "party" and make such a difference!

PS: Bye bye Grigori, it was nice to meet you :) many stars to you too and your sense of humor!

Friday August 21, 2009, 3:16 pm
Brigitte...Yaayyyyyy!!! David's profile is back up. Thanks for alerting us. I like David much better than Grigori. Care2 would never be the same without David!!

Friday August 21, 2009, 4:08 pm
Done!

Friday August 21, 2009, 5:03 pm
I have no idea why I have been downtrodden to the ranks of the dead (past member) but I hope to see you all soon...Thanks for your kind words, never easily forgotten and very much treasured...David. X

Friday August 21, 2009, 5:29 pm
It would appear that i exist no more on care2...All memories wiped with a clean cloth...My email is: davidb2u@gmail.com...Should you so desire to contact, this is the only way I know how to do it...All the very and keep up the good work...Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee David with love!

Friday August 21, 2009, 8:41 pm
"It would appear that i exist no more on care2"

David is back so you are no more. I've sent you a message.

Saturday August 22, 2009, 9:11 am
Signed and noted!

Saturday August 22, 2009, 10:55 am

"Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have to food or shelter? Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter. That's because there isn't any. This "right" has never existed in America."

Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey in arecent Wall Street Journal op-ed on health care.

Whole Foods Backlash & Boycott: Bloggers Outraged Over CEO's Anti-'ObamaCare' Column

Saturday August 22, 2009, 11:50 am

Friends of David Buchan and those interested in him::

David has asked me to thank all who have put up with his antics over time and those of you who have re-sent him (and new) 'friend requests'...He is unable to reply due to care2 restrictions but just wants you to know that he cares for each and every one of you...

His message:

"Don't give up, there is a big world out there and YOU can do something to help those who cannot help themselves...Please do it...So long, it's been an absolute privilege to know you...David XO"

Saturday August 22, 2009, 11:51 am

Friends of David Buchan and those interested in him::

David has asked me to thank all who have put up with his antics over time and those of you who have re-sent him (and new) 'friend requests'...He is unable to reply due to care2 restrictions but just wants you to know that he cares for each and every one of you...

His message:

"Don't give up, there is a big world out there and YOU can do something to help those who cannot help themselves...Please do it...So long, it's been an absolute privilege to know you...David XO"

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Please message me if you want to remain in contact with David. He treasures his friendships here. I'm hoping this is just a temporary glitch with Care2...Marion

Saturday August 22, 2009, 2:25 pm
Blue while I admire you and your steadfast will I would humbly disagree with you..The 14th amendment speaks volumes about this issue if we but read it and what the framers were getting at when they wrote it.

America is in free fall! The average citizen is not responsible for inflation. Crooked legislators. Corrupt, underhanded, corporations, who have demanded their pound of flesh and indeed got a payload from US in the form of Bailout.. Gr$$d has kept the playing field lopsided. Polluted waters and air now cause health problems. The framers did not advocate that the playing field should be lopsided. For that matter the framers did not write anything into the constitution about bailing out the wealthy..We did!


Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

The famous phrase is based on the writings of English writer John Locke, who expressed that "no one ought to (harm) another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions."[1]

Sunday August 23, 2009, 2:26 pm
I do believe health care is a moral issue for all Americans. I just can't keep listening to other that bring up our guilding documents due to the small fact of firearms. When this was written, all they had was gunpowder and ball or some obsolete form of a gun but sinlge shot none the less. ( not much protection in my eyes but pretty equal to other white people that had firearms). They didn't have many, if at all, doctors during those days especially out "west" (not to be confused with the west coast since they hadn't gone that far). These documents are a guild to be updated as needed. Their life expectency was very short, our very long. The basics are okay for the time but not now, as I said, the world has change too much. I read them as a guild without breaking the basic thought.
Health care is moral. Fellow citizens suffering and dying with no health care is moral. It is up to us as Americans to help our own FIRST, and then other nations. Show me where our documents say we must break the back of All of America to help other nations first. Where does it say all our tax monies go for a war that deprives Americans of health, a war most of us want to stop. I am not being arguementative, just an observation. I am a human being and feel it my duty to help those in need. Yes, have given money to drunks on the street because they NEED a drink and I am not here to judge them (although alcoholism ran rampant in my own family and I hated every single day of it).
I believe in morals and scruples and my word is my worth. If I preach they need medical, then I should be willing to help them, which I have done many times before. To me, this is a life and death issue. My sister had ovarian cancer and after 3 years, they refused to treat her until her out of pocket expenses were paid for the year. Her children paid it for her and she live 2 more years. That my friend is pursuit of happiness and life. Liberty was curtailed due to costs. Please don't try and say health has nothing to do with life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Have you ever tried to do something after chemo? She did, she worked for 2 years while vomiting all week.

Sunday August 30, 2009, 3:22 am
Done