I can't seem to find the video from CNN. I hope you can
Here's a little of what he said
'Why should the liberals always cave?'
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/...

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/0...

is the public option will make health care coverage affordable and people can't be gouged or denied services they have been to for "nebulous" reasons. There will also not be refusal due to pre-existing conditions.

There are ways around these "triggers" and you can bet the private insurance companies are exploring those ways right now. Once those "triggers" are tripped an example could be that insurance companies will deliberately eat some of the costs that they normally would have passed onto their customers. This will bring health care related costs down in the market place. Once that happens and those "triggers" are removed insurance companies will then pass onto the customer the original costs plus the costs that they ate in order to compensate for their previous losses. This is exactly what the oil companies do.

There must be a public option for this to work. This is the only way.

Their model for competition in health insurance is based on AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

Somebody give me the trigger, I'll pull it.

Trigger was a movie horse not something I want in my health insurance legislation.
Again, I will wait and see. Gibbs seemed to indicate that Obama was going to push for a public option.
Can't the g.d. democrats get ANYTHING done? Does effing Fox news run the country?

Part of my letter to the President

Sir, you have many reforms, but the key and everyone knows, it is the "Public Option", not more “Triggers, or Co-opts”, they are not, repeat not; competition and you know it and we your “Supporters“all know that the foundation, the base of REFORMING the Health Care system in America is “COMPETITION” it’s the only lever for making the change, our Business Community and our Laborers have to have, moving forward.

We must have the Strong Competition to make the necessary changes, “Benchmarks” will not work, it’s just another name for triggers, we have enough of those and they are necessary, but not sole lever for real change. I have let you know, that I’ am as informed as I can be, I know that our Nation, must, has too compete on the world stage, in many arenas and our Workers are the best in the world, we must have the Competition to complete the REFORMS.

I also know, That Wall Street, The Drug Manufacturers and Health Insurance and Insurance Industry are the Key, a corporate few, control both parties and it is a narrow few moneyed few, who have contributed to every Election on both sides of the Political spectrum, so you cannot sell me Centrist, or moderation. It’s been sixty years in waiting and you know, if you do not do the hard work now, you’ll lose at the next election and it could happen either way, but if you try to sell me the middle of road, (where I'll get runover, in both directions, from both sides of Congress, in the out years) because it’s hard to go against the Corporate elite’s, because private deals with Drugs and Hospitals and Doctors, I know you've made. Sir, I’ll know it and I cannot back you up on this KEY LEGISLATION if it's weak and compromised to the moderate RIGHT.

I don't like this trigger bit.

It sounds too much like Sunset Rules

And how many agencies have been killed off by Sunset Rules?

They engage in Mission Creep.

But since these are private corporations not government, they'll hire lawyers to read gaps into any existing laws that would supposedly trigger public option.

And if another party takes control of any part of our government, there goes the trigger entirely.

Better to do everything we can now.

The trigger is a red herring that will be adopted begrudgingly by even some republicans if they can pass a bill that has no public option and protects increases insurance (and drug) corporation profits.

The catch? The trigger will be so ambiguous and so far in the future that all the cocksucking congresswhores will be retired if it ever comes up.

Who cares if he supports a trigger. He knows the trigger will never be pulled, and even if it is, it will be years away from now when it will have no effect on Nelson.

To me, the the public option has always been a means, not an end. We have to revisit the problem. There is 16% of our population with no insurance, too many health related bankruptcies, and our costs are about 50% higher than the other industrial countries.

The public option has always, to me, represented a method of getting our costs under control. If there's to be a trigger, then, the trigger should be that our per capita costs exceed the rest of the industrial countries. Being in last place should be the trigger. Actually, being in the bottom 33% should be the trigger.

So, a trigger is fine, so long as it's the right trigger. And that trigger should be defined as a system that costs more than the rest of the industrial countries, provides less services than the rest of the industrial countries, and doesn't provide coverage for everyone as do the rest of the industrial countries.

I can't understand these people attending town meeting, advocating that this country continue to have health costs 50% higher than the rest of the industrial countries.

As far as the private insurance is concerned, I'm being told (not sure if it's true), that the gambit is to switch the in-network providers every couple of months so that people have to get new doctors and pediatricians a couple times a year. I don't get stuck into this plan until next year. People are price gouged if they go out-of-network. There's no one in that plan clamoring to maintain private insurance over Medicare for all (H.R. 676).

Howard Dean has previously said the trigger is a "terrible idea," saying insurance companies "will just change their behavior until the trigger runs out and go back to how they were."

More likely they will do nothing until the trigger looms, then they will change their behavior until the threat passes and return to business as usual.

The question I asked Senator Fully Insured Nelson is how many Americans is he willing to see die, suffer needlessly, or face financial ruin while we wait for private insurance companies to do what they could have done yesterday?

Ben needs a strong primary challenger, no matter what that means for Nelson's senate seat. Just like the insurance companies, he's only modifying his behavior while he senses there is a threat. And it's not much modification -- calling for a slow trigger is simply away to protect private insurance companies at the expense of sick people.

Nelson must go. If Nebraskans want to elect a radical winger in his place, I say fine. All Nelson is doing is slightly slowing how fast this country goes down the tubes. I say, if that's what Americans really want, let's get on with it!

for anyone who challenges Ben Nelson in the Primary and if he wins the primary I will give another $100 to the republican who runs against the fucker. I hate Ben Nelson!

I didn't think so.

Nor are we fooled by the co-op scam, the "insurance reform" scam, or the delayed implementation scam.

Got any more scams, you scamming scammers? Love to hear 'em; don't believe 'em; you're gonna pay for your dishonesty.

.. goes off half-cocked.