Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (12626)	12/24/2009 11:44:36 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

What we got was a negotiated result, never as pretty. This one was particularly ugly. This type of thing is one of the reasons why I'm against new big government programs trying to solve things. Even in cases where maybe the government really could do something that's a net positive (which is harder and rarer than many people think even when some different approach is used), what comes out of the political process tends to be very messy. This was particularly ugly not because it was a negotiation, that's what produces most of the ordinary "never as pretty", results we get from government. But because it was a rushed negotiation, almost all within one party, with a determination to get something passed, that was much stronger than any concern about the quality of what's passed.