Hardball With Chris Matthews: U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner: Health Care (2009)

Source:MSNBC- U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner (Democrat, New York) in 2009.

"You Tube the name " Wendell Potter " and see what you are supporting if you are opposed to reform.

Health Care For Patients, NOT For Profit because Health Care For Profit is Health Care DENIED.

Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should an insurance middleman come between a patient and his/her doctor - particularly, if the insurance middleman stands to gain from it.

To put it simply, IT'S A CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

Insurance has no business being in Health Care. They contribute nothing towards it. NOTHING!" 

From Robb 1031 

Back in 2009/10, there was a block of left-wing House Democrats who said they wouldn't vote for any health care reform bill, that didn't have a public option in it. Representative Anthony Weiner (Democrat, New York) was part of that left-wing block in the House. They're argument was that they wanted single payer and government-run, health insurance (if not health care reform) was their position and the public option and allowing non-seniors to pay into Medicare and use that as their own health insurance. The fact is the Affordable Care Act was passed in March, 2010 and it didn't have a public option in it. It had subsides for lower middle class workers, as well as a Patient Bill of Rights for everyone. 

I've never been a fan of Anthony Weiner to begin with, but this is probably the main reason. Forget the fact that he's a left-wing, closeted Democratic Socialist, I could live with that, if I didn't have to vote for him and he didn't officially represent me. It's the: "Do it might way, or we don't it at all." approach to American politics, especially in a Democratic Party that's so diverse and large, that has both a Far-Left and Center-Right, as well as Center-Left, where you have to be able to work with members of your own party, just to get anything done in this country.