That's all they've been doing - making compromises with people who aren't going to vote for the bill anyway. The result: half a baby.
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you can also put a bill out there that has the SUPPORT of 76% of the nation rather than the DISDAIN of 76% of the nation!
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A large part of that 76% wants real reform, and is disappointed with the cop-outs and half measures in the bill, along with the largess.
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they can put a bill out there that has the support of the medical personnel that will have to work under it every single day... the people who are already in the industry, that know the system... when those people are saying "This health care bill is a big problem and we need to think of other ways to fix this."
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http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=1790
Most doctors supported the public option.
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here is a novel idea - PUT CONGRESS ON THE SAME HEALTH CARE PLAN!!!
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That's been included in reverse - letting the Office of Personnel Management put contracts up for bid to provide health insurance that ordinary people can buy into. But it's not clear if that will survive reconciliation. And while Lieberboy says he might support it, you can probably chalk that up as another lie.
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Turning it over fully to government control will not fix the system either
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IT'S NOT FULL GOVERNMENTAL CONTROL. It was never even close to it.
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it will fall apart, just like medicare, just like social security, just like every other government run chartity funded by very real public dollars it will be FLAT ASS BROKE.
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It's not a charity if it's funded by the premiums of people buying into the plan.
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if we go forward with this trillion dollar health care bill NOW...
we will be creating a problem ten times that size 15 to 20 years down range.
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If we do nothing now, health care costs will go up by another 100% in 10 years time.
We did something, a hell of a lot more than the Republicans ever did. But Obama let Congress run in a million different directions, he let the Right frame the issue and monopolize the debate, and at the end he and the Senate leadership caved into Lieberboy et al.
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you want to fix health care in this nation? i have a great place we can start...
elementary school.
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Or we could look at...oh, I don't know...EVERY OTHER FIRST WORLD COUNTRY and see how they handle health care, and do it better for less cost.
Nah, let's just concentrate on school lunches and phys ed. Small stuff, that, while important, come no where near to the crux of the problem.