What can we say. Speaking with two professional health care consultants over the weekend, the tone of the conversation was not positive. They were somewhat appalled by the bill, calling it welfare for the insurance industry.
There are two parties in America. We call them Democrats and Republicans. They are in fact Liberal Corporatists and Fascist Corporatists. Take your pick.
At the moment Al Franken is holding the mantel of working for the people.
McClatchy: 1:19 a.m.: Senate Dems win key 60-40 vote on health care
The vote, the first of three planned this week aimed at cutting off different debates, found Democrats marching united and determined toward anticipated passage of historic health care legislation late Wednesday or Thursday. If that happens, the Senate bill will have to be reconciled with the version the House of Representatives passed last month.
Many major points in both bills are roughly the same. Insurers would be barred from denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions. Nearly everyone would have to obtain coverage in four or five years. New exchanges, or marketplaces, would be created to help consumers shop for policies.
But there are sharp divisions over abortion, taxes and the public option.
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What public option? Health Care Ins. stocks are soaring as I write this. Of course they're America's newest too big to fail Corps. with their hand placed firmly in all of our pockets now by law.
Its a big mess. A friend told me that his European friend said that Americans are just too greedy. We don't get it.
He's wrong some of us get it. The problem is it takes increasingly big $$ to get elected $$ only the uber-rich have or the Big Corps. The concerns of the peasantry are ignored.
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