Democrats Demand Obama Keep Government Health Plan

NOTE: Now the truth comes out of who is running the House -- it is the Progressive Caucus (LIBERAL) where Speaker Pelosi gets her marching orders. If the Blue Dogs think they control anything, they need to think again. All they are good for is give enough votes with the crack of Pelosi's whip to pass bills through the House. How many members of the Progressive Caucus also belong to the Democratic Socialist of America (DSA)? UPDATE: 69 members of the House and one Senator belong to the DSA Note that the Democrat Party changed their name to Democratic just like the Socialist Party.

Democrats Demand Obama Keep Government Health Plan

Bloomberg via Yahoo! News Aug. 18, 2009 Catherine Dodge and Edwin Chen

Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) - President Barack Obama is facing pressure from fellow Democrats to keep a government-run insurance plan in a health-care overhaul, with House lawmakers threatening to withhold support without it.

"To take the public option off the table would be a grave error," leaders of the 83 member Congressional Progressive Caucus said in a letter last night to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "Passage in the House of Representatives depends upon inclusion of it."

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