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(D) Manny Rutinel
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December 16, 2009 07:37 PM UTC
13 Comments
I’ll agree that this bill sucks the big one. But it still brings about some much needed improvement.
…adopting this bill also means that “health care reform” goes on the “finished” list for who knows how many years. I see NO compromise on anyone part besides Obama/Emanuel,Reid. Do you? I had thought “compromise” was a two-way dance–give a little, take a little. That has not been the case here.
from the more progressive House Democrats too.
You may be right this draws a line under HCR for years, but I don’t think that’s set in stone, and that there could be plenty of room for fine-tuning and fixing it over the rest of Obama’s term. On the flip side, there’s a potential to roll back parts before they go into effect in four years, too. But once Medicare and SCHIP passed it’s not as though they were frozen, so there’s some hope.
ALL the compromise has been from the side of the left. None whatsoever from the Republicans (mostly, as stated elsehwere, their main purpose in life is to deny Obama any claim to anything).
We are, as blv some rightwinger on this site said elsewhere, very likely at the point where the majority don’t like this bill, some from the right, some from the left. Obama loses whether the bill passes or not.
Given that Obama will never budge the far right, far better that he admit this bill has been twisted out of all recognition by compromise in a vain attempt to get support from the not-quite-so-far right and go at it again after the next elections, making the election turn on what the bill should have been in the first place. That would be Single Payer available for all, though no one has to see any particular doctor. Shorthand: the French systeme–public payer, private providers, financed by taxes on businesses in lieu of health care payouts whether they provide insurance currently or not, with all the freedom and options in the world to buy your own private plan/providers etc. Parallel: Public schools–available free (tax financed) for all; private education optional.
Make such a plan–in the form of a specific, detailed bill that candidates endorse or not–the centerpiece of the 2010 Democratic platform and election. The issue is big enough to warrant such attention, rather than being flim-flammed in back-room dealings with the likes of L*man (whose name I can no longer even type without feeling nauseous). Looking back, I think Obama erred seriously by standing back too far too long during the debate over the current dog’s breakfast. If this were as big a deal as he claimed–and I think it was–he should have acted like it.
Suspect Obama may be haunted by Clinton’s experience–he never went back after HRC’s version collapsed. That would be a mistake on Obama’s part. Instead of losing with no bill, a la WJC, he’s headed to lose with a lousy bill. Any damn thing is indeed much worse than nothing. Sometimes we learn rather too much from history.
I wouldn’t exactly call Obama/Emanuel,Reid “the left,” but let’s not quibble over semantics. I feel the same discouragement and outrage you do over this, but the fact is, the last election was in large part run on Obama’s HCR proposals, and they looked a lot like this bill.
The public option was a big deal in Obama’s campaign promises. The tax on high-value plans was not part of Obama’s promises. Drug reimportation was part of his proposal. Individual mandates were not part of his plan (in fact he specifically attacked them).
His health care plan was very different from this awful bill.
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…not an Obama bill per se, although one he would endorse, get behind from the get-go, and go for a win instead of trying to characterize the current mess as something to brag about! Signing ceremony? How about at midnight in the basement, lights out.
But let us also face this fact: Ain’t gonna happen. He wants the current bill to be passed. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. Doesn’t really matter. By making that call, he has already declared defeat and tried to name it victory, and in the process alienated enough of the progressive part of his party that make political victory next year next to impossible. Why should we care?
Tried, failed, decided not to try again but instead pin a blue label on it. Next up on the same conveyor belt: financial services reform.
I suppose, except the stimulus bill was as much of an aborted compromise, pleasing no one, and Obama signed that in the full light of day at the Museum of Nature and Science.
Because it’s an election year. And in 2011 we’ll have lost seats. Like it or not, this is the best we can get.
With that said, passing this will then open the possibility to have a simple bill that does just one thing – public option, medicare buy-in, something else. But we can go for a very simple single-subject bill in 2011.
but ehn again we expect that from a realist.
I’m not surprised by the looming bill in the Senate. Some compromise with the House still has to transpire.
We could easily return to contract on America, and then the coronation of a new Bush waiting in the wings.
using every example to childlishly (banker boy) attack Sen Bennet for supporting a public option all summer.
Frankly, if it will make you happy, perhaps the ad minstration should opt for no change at all on health care, and just move on to climate change.
…in determining what is and is not “childish,” I’ll send you a special request.
Just as I’m sure you’ll send me a special request when you think you need help with the English language, spell-checking, and proof reading.
Deal?
I’m getting new glasses, and a new tower on my failing keyboard.
The dyslexia could be cured by taking more time to post, but I’m not ompromising on this one.
No deal……