Bottomline on the House Health Bill

[SHRED]

Forced payment to insurance companies, huge government subsidies for them, and a very limited to nonexistent public option.

Their resistance is obviously phony, and notice how it has died down while health corporation stocks have risen.


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[customerserviceguy]

1. We tried to do too much, too soon

Simply having a numerical majority in both houses of Congress, and the White House at the same time does not automatically mean that there is going to be a massive change.

In fact, I'd argue that very little has changed in one year. We still have troops dying by the dozen in Afghanistan and Iraq, the bankers are still the only ones who got bailed out, and there are more unemployed and underemployed (I fit into the latter category) people than there were the week after the election. The rich still own Congress, and get what they want through an army of lobbyists.

Some "change", huh?

[SHRED]

2. Having a "D" after their name...

...doesn't guarantee anything.

By my quess-timation we have 3/4 or so Corporatists filling Congress with maybe a quarter for the people.


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[Delphinus]

3. 'Fraid you're right.

{big sad sigh} :(