Sen. Mary Landrieu is one of the key centrist Democrats in the Senate President Obama may need to pass any major health care overhaul. Previously, Landrieu has said that the inclusion of a government-run insurance option in any health care bill is likely a deal breaker for her. However, Landrieu is indicating now that she may be open to supporting a bill that includes a "trigger" mechanism that creates a public option only in the event private insurers fail to provide affordable coverage on their own over the next several years. Politics Dailyis reporting Landrieu is one of several moderate Democrats meeting with the President today to discuss the trigger option, among other details.
Politics Daily has learned that moderate Democrats, including Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mary Landrieu of Lousiana, are meeting Thursday with Obama at the White House. About 15 of them met Wednesday with Rahm Emanuel, the president's chief of staff.
Sen. Landrieu was not completely won over, but she did say 'he made a legitimate effort to say, 'Let's try to find common ground.' That is what we're sent here to do. That's what the American people want us to do. And we owe it to them to make our best effort.'
In terms of what she can vote for in the future, Landrieu said tonight the idea of a trigger option, which has been floated recently, 'might be something we can work with,' adding, 'We need more clarity, but it's a start.'
... written by MaryIsOut , September 10, 2009 - 11:50 am
She is playing with everyone and is going to vote for in anyway. She is a Harry Reid and BHO follower that's gotta go!
... written by ugh , September 10, 2009 - 12:30 pm
She makes Vitter look like a saint.
... written by Marys EGO , September 10, 2009 - 12:39 pm
Don't do it Mary
... written by unoga , September 10, 2009 - 12:51 pm
she just wants to see how much butter he puts on her biscuit!
... written by Sugar5246 , September 10, 2009 - 01:07 pm
Who is going to decide who will pull the trigger? No to anything that could ever become a public option. No taxpayer dollars for any plan that the members of Congress and the Senate are not required to sign up for. Making them a consumer of the plan is the only hope that we have that they will make it work.
... written by lastoneout , September 10, 2009 - 01:29 pm
Mary will not vote for a public option because to do so will put the entire charity hospital system at risk of closing. She knows as well as anyone the political risks involved in doing so and in the end will not fall on that sword for Obama.
... written by RB , September 10, 2009 - 01:30 pm
Enough waffling Senator Landrieu and stopped getting freaked out whenever Republicans look at you the wrong way. That's what they are supposed to do. Do what is right and move forward with health care reform.
... written by JP , September 10, 2009 - 01:41 pm
To pretend that Mary Landrieu or most of the politicians involved in this "reform" effort are truly acting on behalf of the people is absurd. It should be obvious to everyone that Congress is in the hands of corporate interests. Max Baucus and the five others who are responsible for a large part of this bill have received millions of dollars from the health care/big pharma industry.
This Democratic leadership is really good at pretending they're helping the individual, while the Republican leadership doesn't even bother to pretend much. The only thing more ridiculous than the phony reform efforts being offered by Democrats are the insane falsities and fear-mongering being flung around by Republican talking heads.
... written by Jack43 , September 10, 2009 - 02:07 pm
Lyin Landrieu will do whatever the Chicago Thug wants her to do as well as the rest of the Democrat gangsters in Congress. Madoff is an amateur thief compared to Congress, now in bed with the thieves on Wall Street. They are fleecing America and strangling individual freedom. Look at California and cities like Detroit and see the future under Democrats and RINO traitors.
... written by whodo , September 10, 2009 - 02:23 pm
Jack43, "now in bed with the thieves on Wall Street."?? Dude, if you think this is a new thing all the sudden begun under Obama and the Democrats, you need to do some serious research. Start with the bipartisan effort in 1999 where Clinton and the Republican Congress undid the Glass-Steagil Act, opening the floodgates for the crazy ventures like "mortgage-backed securities" and "credit default swaps." Then look at how the Bush Administration shackled the SEC from doing its duty for eight years, allowing things like the Madoff scheme (a symbolic tip of the iceberg) to blossom. Look at how the Federal Reserve creates artificial bubbles time and time again (dot.com, housing, etc.) and keeps interest rates artificially low and keeps us all in a perpetual state of debt. But really, the Wall Street criminals have been infiltrating for decades.
... written by Phil , September 10, 2009 - 04:13 pm
If she sits down at the table with Republicans and Independents with a clean sheet of paper and works out a truly bi-partisan approach to solving healthier care, I might vote for her. If this democratic nonsense gets rammed through, she'll never get a vote from me again.
... written by Phil , September 10, 2009 - 04:14 pm
Trigger? isn't that a necessary part of IED's?
... written by Jay , September 10, 2009 - 06:29 pm
How much sense does it make to load the insurance companies up with state and federal mandates and then make them out to be the bad guys when prices keep going up How much would car insurance cost if you could just wait until after the accident before you bought insurance and still be covered
... written by John E. , September 10, 2009 - 08:24 pm
Let them pass the trigger mechanism. In the interim hopefully we can get a new bunch of senators and congressmen in office who respect the constituion and individual liberty. Then they can remove the trigger before it takes effect.
... written by Phil , September 10, 2009 - 09:22 pm
JP - "look at how the Bush Administration shackled the SEC from doing its duty for eight years".
The crooks got their jobs during the Clinton administration.
... written by mg , September 10, 2009 - 10:16 pm
By the way. Who did vote for Mary? I can't find anyone who will admit it.
... written by Matt , September 11, 2009 - 01:47 am
Anybody surprised?? Wake up already.
... written by Phil , September 12, 2009 - 04:35 pm
I voted for Mary, known her since she graduated from law school. But I won't vote for her again if she votes for this nonsense.
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