--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > > > All Swans Start As Ugly Ducklings: Healthcare Reform In Perspectiveby > > > Norbrook <http://norbrook.dailykos.com/> - Dec 26, 2009 > > <snip> > > > 54 years ago, a weak, flawed piece of legislation was passed. > > > It didn't do anything to control air pollution. It didn't > > > set any standards. It didn't have enforcement built into it. > > > It didn't even have a lot of funding. 8 years later, another > > > piece of legislation was passed. It wasn't much better. But > > > they were the beginning. As weak and toothless as these laws > > > were, they set into law the principles that enabled the > > > 1970 law. > > > > So we should expect to wait another 15 years before we > > get a decent health reform bill? > > > > Pigs fly every 15 years if you smoke enough hopium, doncha know. Obama's HCR > apologists ignore the facts at their peril. This bill is such a sink hole no > one will ever dig out of it. By the time the hopey dopey folks come down from > their high, their employers will have dropped their group plans, they will > have been forced to pay for high deductible junk insurance on top of ever > increasing premiums and they will have no leverage as individuals to find a > competitive plan, since competitive plans don't exist without a public > option. To top it off, if they can't afford to pay the mandated premiums they > will pay tax penalties and they still won't have health insurance. > > Guess what? In the Senate bill, which will probably prevail over the House > bill in conference, many of the rotten provisions won't go into effect until > 2013, right after the start of Obama's lame duck second term. Sweet. >
I don't think anyone is going to "kill the bill." I believe that most rational Dems recognize that considering the realities of the current political make up of Congress what has been accomplished is a major, significent step forward in a decades long history of failed attempts to get anywhere on such a scale with health care legislation.
