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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (13031)1/13/2010 7:15:09 AM
From: Lane31 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
If it doesn't pass, reform is dead for the foreseeable future.

I understand that thinking. I also understand the exhaustion that might provoke it. But it seems to me it's more about being able to rationalize counting a win than about making a net improvement.

I know that X number more will be covered and that some of the insurance abuses will be corrected. That's a good thing. But what is ignored is the fallout. It seems desperate and short sighted to me.

If we could look at what is accomplished in this legislation with the understanding that nothing more can be wheedled out of the system, then set that as the objective for a redo. If both sides could agree to do exactly that much, no more or no less. If we could then come up with the most constructive, or least destructive, way of accomplishing those slim objectives, we would be so much better off. We could get a bill under a hundred pages that hits directly on the target and wouldn't burn us going forward in myriad ways.
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