The Passage of the Democratic Health Care Bill: An Act of God?

[Cliffy]

As i understand it this bill could have been written by the Health Insurance Industry. Without a 'Public Option' it is just a way of cyphoning money from government through the outrageous markups of Health Care Administrators.

The effort to keep abortion out of the funding arrangements seems fragile. I've seen a lot of people predicting that it will, in the bill's final form, allow a government sponsored bounty hunt on the unborn babies of poor people.

Well there are too many poor people and it is a drain on the economy so it only makes sense, don't you think? (Isn't that why the pharmaceutical companies are so heavily invested in AIDS in Africa? Those pesky blacks are getting in the way of unfettered rape and pillage of all those natural resources.) The only way to maximize profits in the US is to eliminate those who are a drain on the system. Aborting the poor makes good economical sense to the rich.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

As i understand it this bill could have been written by the Health Insurance Industry. Without a 'Public Option' it is just a way of cyphoning money from government through the outrageous markups of Health Care Administrators.

The effort to keep abortion out of the funding arrangements seems fragile. I've seen a lot of people predicting that it will, in the bill's final form, allow a government sponsored bounty hunt on the unborn babies of poor people.

A public option would have been better, but it just wasn’t on, the votes for public option were not there. As I said before ,politics is the art of the possible, one does what one can within the existing constraints (60 votes in the senate, majority vote in the House).

The Democratic leaders had to come up with a proposal acceptable to all Democrats. There is only a narrow window of opportunity to pass the reform and it is closing. As I said if Republicans have any thing to say at all in the matter, there will be no reform, Republicans are quite happy to leave the medical care to drug companies and insurance companies, they couldn’t care less how many Americans go without insurance.

If due to some reason Democrats cannot reconcile the two bills so that the compromise will get a majority support in the Hose and Senate, health care reform will be dead for at least another 50 years.