Pelosi lives in an alternate universe. She and the others of the extreme left will keep pushing the "public option" which is nothing more than government run health care, and lying through their teeth about the ultimate cost to taxpayers.
It will be interesting to see why kind of health care coverage the members of Congress get once they've driven all the private insurers out of business.

Perhaps Nancy will sponsor a bill to help all of the 10's of thousands who have recently found that they've got defective Chinese drywall in their homes, a problem which is not covered by homeowners insurance. This will give Nancy and Company the "in" they need in order to take over property insurance.

The scariest detail should be their statements that they want to keep the growth in health care to less than the rate of inflation.

That would mean that they intend to effectively shrink 1/6th of the economy every year for at least the next 10 years. That means fewer jobs in health care and for those of us who know someone who works in the field it means few if any raises.

How Obama expects to grow an economy while shrinking 1/6th of it and taxing the rest of it with Cap and Trade I have no idea. Frankly, I don't think he does expect to grow it and the bottom line is that I don't think he cares if the economy grows or not as long as his social engineering experiments go forward.

Health care, contrary to the policy line of the democrats, IS a productive segment of the economy. It includes manufacturing jobs for equipment, devices and disposables. It includes research jobs. It includes all the administrative jobs that any other normal company has. It's more than just your doctor, your insurance plan and the drug companies.

GarandFan - the problem isn't with homeowner's insurance it is with the construction industry. THAT is what BO will want to take over. He can force unionization on it too. He plans on forcing unionization on all health care workers why not everywhere?

Lord, please protect us all from all enemys foriegn and domestic.

"How Obama expects to grow an economy while shrinking 1/6th of it and taxing the rest of it with Cap and Trade I have no idea."

Completely agree, Jim. The problem is, neither does Obama. I'm starting to think he actually doesn't understand the economic impact of his Liberal Experiments in Social Justice, any more than he understands world affairs.

Worse, I think Congress knows, but they don't care. They just rely on elections every two years to be able to shuck the blame for the previous congress like a snake sheds its skin. Problem is, after it's over, we're still left with the same snake.

These guys think the music will never end.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the case is growing stronger for allowing the government to sell health insurance

Can you spell "nuclear option?"

Can you spell "Charlie Rangel?"

To be clear, that's spelled "C.R.O.O.K.E.D. A.-H.O.L.E"

Anything out of Pelosi's mouth has not processed well enough by her brain.

Makes me doubt that Madame Speaker's observation on the public option will ever happen.

They have to pass it via reconciliation because there are too many communists like Jan Schakowsky in the House who are demanding a 'public option'. But a public option will never pass the senate so they are planning to pass different bills in both houses and then pass the House bill via reconciliation.

The only hope is for he Senate GOP to grow some balls and do what they threatened to do several weeks ago and that is to paralyze the Senate with procedural votes all requiring 60 votes.

I doubt they have what it takes to actually do it.

Too bad. I enjoyed living in a democracy.