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[politics] The House and healthcare reform
I’ve been a bit distracted lately, oddly enough by healthcare, or I’d have had more to say about the HCR process in the House. There’s lots to say now, much of it complaint. What the hell ever did happen to single payer, given that the Dems negotiated that away all by themselves? Why was the dreadful, pathetic Stupak-Pitts amendment even allowed to enter the process? Is the Senate serious about the six-month waiting period for the Public Option, which protects insurance companies while (sometimes fatally) victimizing voters?
But you know what? A few years ago we were debating whether to privatize Social Security. Now we’re complaining that the proposed Public Option is flawed.
Guess which argument I’d rather have. Victory in politics is ever transient, but I think, for now at least, that sanity, goodwill and reason have prevailed. A hell of a change after all those years of Republican governance.
Posted: 7:03 am Sun November 08 2009 |
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