Dems Trumpet Business Roundtable’s Praise Of Health Care Plan
The Democratic National Committee really wants Dem Senators to know: The Business Roundtable has words of praise for Obama’s health care plan.
The DNC has cut a new Web vid trumpeting a report this week from the Business Roundtable praising aspects of Obama’s plan, in hopes of reassuring Dem lawmakers on both the substance and the politics of the health care proposal, and painting Republican opposition as increasingly marginal:
“More and more voices are calling for change,” the vid says. “A new report from the Business Roundtable, one of the most prominent business associations in the country, confirms that the status quo in our health care system is unsustainable.”
Dems hope that the report will get skittish Democratic Senators to see that the consensus for action right now is growing more mainstream, and that opposition from opponents — Republicans, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — is akin to opposing any action at all and is a more and more marginal position.
Indeed, Republican leaders are already upset with the Business Roundtable over the report, claiming that it will enable Dems to “misconstrue” it as business community support for Obama’s plan.
This vid is about driving that wedge in deeper, and about framing the choice Dem Senators face as one between doing nothing or acting on a problem that even the business community sees as an urgent priority.
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Nice “framing!”
Or lying…
Whatever.
Hey, wait a minute! The GOP mantra is that business will always do what is best for themselves and therefore we will all prosper. Don’t these business folks know that Boehner says that healthcare reform can never be in their best interests? These folks must all be socialists at heart.
Interesting to see the list of companies on the Business Roundtable.
I’d guess Aetna, Exxon, Boeing are also members of the Chamber of Commerce.
Wonder how that works out.
I don’t necessarily trust a finding by private industry to be good for *all* Americans. If they are protecting their bottom line, what else will they cut, I wonder?
“Nice “framing!””
IOKIYAR, STFU SBJ.
O/T and depressing: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_re_us/us_troops_mental_health
This should be fun.
WH going to start immigration reform talks in 2010 to provide a path to citizenship for millions of illegals.
Rush and the rest of the race baiters won’t be able to control themselves on this issue. They are going to turn off the Hispanic vote for the next 100 years.
Good luck with that Republicans. You choose to embrace blowhards like Rush, you have to live with the consequences of their race baiting.
Doh….missed that close link.
Hmm, less violence in Iraq = less military suicides in Iraq. Gee, I wonder if that’s a coincidence? Sheesh. The Republican Party is the absolute worst.
mikefromArlington – “This should be fun.”
It’s like the answer to my prayers.
I don’t get how this works though. Members of the Business Roundtable come out for it while the Chamber of Commerce is running ads heavily against healthinsurance reform.
How can these two organizations be so at odds with each other considering many of their members overlap?
@Tena
“It’s like the answer to my prayers.”
I always said…immigration reform next year, or financial regulation reform. Push hard on those topics during the Republican primaries, and so many Republicans will swing for the fences and make themselves un-electable in a General.
@mike
“How can these two organizations be so at odds with each other considering many of their members overlap?”
Um, because it’s DC…the melting pot of hypocracy.
“don’t get how this works though. Members of the Business Roundtable come out for it”
Well, see, that’s where your problem is – you should probably read what they actually said. Members did not come out for “it.” They came out for certain aspects of the SFC bill (only), while cautioning “that its continued support for President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul hinges on whether it slows the soaring growth rate of healthcare costs…The report also shows that reform done wrong … could make a bad situation much worse, in which case Business Roundtable could not support the bill… The business group opposes the bill approved last week by the U.S. House of Representatives. It says the measure fails to control costs and that some provisions, including one that would create a new government insurance plan, could undermine employer-sponsored health coverage.”
“nd so many Republicans will swing for the fences and make themselves un-electable in a General.”
OK then. How does this work.
The Business Roundtable comes out in support of certain aspects of it while the Chamber of Commerce comes out against it in adds blanketing the DC metro market. Members overlap in both situations.
My point still stands. You’ve got two organizations at odds with each other who’s members overlap.
How about we Limbaugh up your cup of tea, for you:
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2009/11/orlando-council-candidate-busted-for-drug-trafficking.html
“A candidate running for Orlando City Council on a law-and-order ticket was arrested Thursday night on charges of drug trafficking, jail records show.
Ezell Harris, who announced a campaign to unseat incumbent Commissioner Daisy Lynum earlier this year, was booked on charges related to the sale of the prescription narcotic hydrocodone.
Harris has a campaign website that promises to “promote public safety” and stresses the dangers of prescription narcotics, but he’s now being held at the Orange County Jail in lieu of $100,400 bail.
Jail records show he is being held on four counts: trafficking in hydrocodone, dispensing illegal drugs without a license, unlawful use of a two-way radio, and possession of drug paraphernalia.”
“Harris has been one of Lynum’s loudest critics for at least eight years. Since he launched his campaign at a Tea Party rally earlier this year, he frequently spoke at City Council meetings, denouncing his opponent as corrupt.”
“Harris has a campaign website that promises to “promote public safety” and stresses the dangers of prescription narcotics … he is being held on four counts: trafficking in hydrocodone, dispensing illegal drugs without a license, unlawful use of a two-way radio, and possession of drug paraphernalia”
Classic textbook GOP projection.
This is what I was talking about earlier. When is the issue of the GOP’s inherent mental health issues going to be addressed?!
Wait, I thought business and especicaly business groups were evil. The CoC was against Obamacare only because business is evil and puts greed and its own interests over the public’s interests, right? So the BR is now FOR Obamacare, we are told, because it is evil and puts greed about the public’s interests?
So confusing to keep straight who the enemy is.
QB, seriously, why don’t you just do us all a favor and take your inane bull$hit somewhere they care about insolent fools like you. I suggest freeperville or the nearest chapter of the KKK.
American businesses will be considerably strengthened if this healthcare bill passes.
Every business that pays for corporate-medical-insurance will benefit from the Democratic healthcare legislation.
The extortion that that the corporate-medical-insurance industry has squeezed out of Americans will be lessened considerably.
Not eliminated, no, that would take a TRUE strong public option.
But still, this health-insurance reform will protect businesses from some of the more egregiously predatory practices of the corporate-medical-insurance extortionists.
It’s astonishing that more businesses haven’t realized how a stronger public-health-insurance plan would alleviate their health-care costs even more.
A HUGE part of large businesses revenue goes to providing health-insurance for their employees.
In every other industrial country on the planet those health-care costs are LOWER.
Those foreign competitors pay less in health care costs and get superior health outcomes for their employees than we do.
Right wingers have abandoned Americans to protect the obscene extortion payments of the corporate-medical-insurance industry at the cost of over 44,000 American lives every year.
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