A history of Public Option rhetoric?

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

"I also want to say to seniors, if you're happy with Medicare the way it is, fine, you can stay in the program, but we're going to give you additional choices, just like they give federal employees in the federal employee health plan. Federal employees have got a variety of choices from which to choose, so should seniors."

- Bush jr. in a debate with Al Gore (source)

Is that Bush endorsing a *gasp* public option?!

let's see who else supports such a similar sort of idea....

"We allow you -- if you choose to, you don't have to -- but we give you broader competition to allow you to buy into the same health care plan that senators and congressmen give themselves.

If it's good enough for us, it's good enough for every American. I believe that your health care is just as important as any politician in Washington, D.C.

You want to buy into it, you can. We give you broader competition. That helps lower prices."

- John Kerry in a debate with Bush jr. ( source)

Is that Kerry endorsing a public option?

So when the FUCK did a public option become socialism?

Not to mention: WTF! Kerry is saying what Bush said 4 years earlier.

Comments

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Communists in America may be different than Communists in USSR/China/Korea.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Tell me another one. Especially since an actual Soviet agent was a member of HUAC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Dickstein_%28congressman%29

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

"may" is an important word in my previous comment

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

According to that article, he wasn't a soviet agent, he was getting money from them and possibly giving them some info. He also wasn't a communist, so this really doesn't have anything to do with 'communists in America', then nor now(I don't have to remind you again that things change between then and now do I :P). Furthermore, there was probably quite a few more people than just him on their payroll.

I'm no communist apologist, that was just a really poor argument ;)