Pelosi (D-Calif.) rejected the idea of a \u201ctrigger\u201d for a public option. That means that the government-run healthcare plan would be a fallback option, enacted only if other reforms didn\u2019t make healthcare more accessible.<\/font><\/p>\n Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), who is being courted by the Obama administration as their best hope for getting a Republican to sign on to President Barack Obama\u2019s healthcare initiative, supports a trigger. But Pelosi does not.<\/font><\/p>\n \u201cI don’t even want to talk about a trigger,\u201d Pelosi said at her weekly press conference. She said the \u201cattitude\u201d of her fellow Democrats is that \u201ca trigger is an excuse for not doing anything<\/strong>.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n By dismissing a trigger, she also risks further alienating Blue Dog Democrats, who are angry at Pelosi’s handling of the bill, particularly her push to include a public option supported by the liberal wing of the caucus. Blue Dogs at times have threatened to block the bill\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <The Hill<\/a>><\/p>\n When presented with a clearly worded question that explains the Public Option without bias, Americans\u2019 choice is clear, as this Times\/CBS poll showed yesterday.<\/p>\n "Would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan — something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get — that would compete with private health insurance plans?"<\/font><\/p>\n Favor 65%<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n Oppose 26%<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <TPM<\/a>><\/p>\n If market forces could bring down insurance company premiums, and thus, make their huge profits less obscene, it would have already happened. Market forces will not work, because the health insurance industry is an oligopoly, not a free market. So why add a trigger to a gun with no bullets?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maine\u2019s Senator Olympia Snowe has proposed that the Public Option be included in health care reform, but its implementation would not be triggered until and unless other reforms passed failed to solve the problems. This is an idea I oppose, and thankfully, I am not alone. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday shot down a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"trigger\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/PelosiStandsAgainstaTrigger_38E8\/trigger.jpg\" "\\"trigger\\"")
<\/a> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday shot down a healthcare compromise that has been viewed as the best chance for getting a bipartisan bill through the Senate.<\/font><\/p>\n\n