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To: stockman_scott who wrote (187838)	3/16/2010 3:12:41 PM
From: cirrus	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361939

The only good thing about health care reform as it now stands is that it's a "foot in the door"... if the house passes it. Once the public realizes that that the law prevents insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions no politician is going to touch that or other major provisions with a ten foot pole. It would be political suicide to suggest a return to the current era of insurance companies denying coverage to the sick. Any suggestion that we do so would trigger a version of the infamous "Death Panels" tag applied in reverse, saving legislation it originally intended to kill. That's the fight in a nutshell. The monied powers that be oppose ANY change, as compromised as it is, because they know it's the beginning of the end. When costs and insurance rates spiral out of control, as they will, the public won't agree to kick out sick people... they will demand the reforms that should have been incorporated into the original legislation.