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To: Katelew who wrote (134392)	3/23/2010 4:32:16 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (2) of 542923

... the problem with the plan isn't the overall amount of cost itself, it's the share of the cost that the government will now pay, once the plan is fully in place. This is why "the country doesn't believe the savings are real"." I agree. What I haven't heard articulated, however, is that this greatest weakness of the legislation will ultimately be its greatest strength. Why do I believe this to be true...because when the cost of providing health care insurance shifts even further from American households to the government the government will finally make the tough choices that will be necessary to bring the cost of health care down. Our legislators are not going to long tolerate a wasteful, inefficient health care system that takes an ever increasing share of spending from their favorite programs. In the end we'll adopt a single payer plan and find ways to reduce wasteful health care spending. That's the track we stepped on this week. The details of the plan we adopted are, in the long run, virtually immaterial. So eat your livers out right wingers cause you're right on where we're headed and forever wrong on whether we should go there. Ed

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