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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: RMF who wrote (41968)3/11/2010 8:12:29 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) of 71588
 
Re: "I saw Pelosi on Charlie Rose last night. She sounded SHARP, but there's NO WAY I could buy her thing about the health bill creating 4 million jobs and actually SAVING money."

Still... if it even SLOWS DOWN the rate of increase in the costs our nation has been facing in this area, that alone will be an improvement.

(Though pls note I am *not* a 'huge' fan of exactly what has been crafted here. It may be the 'only thing that has a chance of passing' but I'm with you that there is not near enough cost curtailment in it, not enough of the HARD and SERIOUS REFORM that needs to be visited upon Big Pharma, Big Insurance, Big Government, and Big Medicine.)

Re: WHY can't the Democrats throw some Tort Reform in the bill or open State Lines to "competition" between insurance companies?

I expect that they easily COULD but have zero incentive to do so (despite clearly making the offers over and again) because, in this election year of "No" it would gain them NO VOTES in Congress... and likely could even peel a few off of the numbers that they have now.

I ALSO expect that serious cost containment will be a "work in progress" for several more years to come, with bits and pieces of policies (such as the ones you mention) being added to the laws bye-and-bye.

Likely that something big gets passed now... and then there is a decade or so of tweaks and fixes that will come as it goes on it's 'shake down cruise'. <g>
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