Reply #5: what makes you think you actually know the needs of folks here?

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are you clairvoyant?

I remember the failure of the health bill in 1993 produced the compromise which led to SCHIP (Children's Health Insurance). That was eventually signed into law by Bush. Why can't we do better this time with control of Congress and the WH? This is just kiss-ass timidity to try and circle the wagons around this weak House bill, before the Senate even presents theirs. You want to fold behind the House bill without a fight for what we need and deserve. There's no telling what you'll actually get in the end. I remember the ballyhooed 'education reform' with lovable Ted Kennedy celebrating along with the WH. Years later and we're still waiting for the mandates to be funded. You shouldn't be counseling folks here to fold in behind this political compromise, at the very least not until the fight is over.