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To: Bridge Player who wrote (129078)	1/23/2010 11:31:11 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542043

There's a key element missing from that. I was just about to comment to that effect there. Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't do anything for those who can't buy insurance at any price, which in my mind is a critical element. Perhaps that is implied in item 5 but it needs to be explicit.

To: Bridge Player who wrote (129078)	1/23/2010 1:17:46 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542043

<<<Getting Health Care Reform Right Scott Brown's election to the Senate gives the nation a chance to slow down and rethink health care reform. It gives our lawmakers an opportunity to keep the patient at the center of American health care. And to do this we must: - Scrap the current legislation. - Enact the five reforms listed above. - Pass each reform separately, one bill every four months. - Limit each bill to 50 pages. - Let each bill pass or fail on its own merits—no pork, no pay-offs. - Make final language available to the public for at least 7 days prior to voting.>>> It really shouldn't matter where these people are coming from as long as we judge the proposals on the merits. I do like the strategy. Select a limited number of low fruit type of reform proposal (five is okay or whatever). Pass each one separately. There is nothing wrong with each of the five proposals in the article. At least it is a positive step forward. However, when you put all five together you definitely see a political agenda. But hey, it is at least a positive step forward. Where were these people the past eight years before Obama and the Democrats started to talk about health care reform. It sounds like they could have kept this thing from getting so ugly that nothing can ever be done. If they had stepped up earlier when Obama was begging for bipartisan support prospects may be different. Coming up with this now sounds like a trojan horse thing.