US Senate Passes Obama health bill

[Jackson5050]

mrstickball said:Yes, I wasn't attempting to mean that legislation should always be 100% perfect, but that should be the goal of each bill passed. I would have much perfected if they would have debated healthcare over the next year or two, and passed pieces of legislation independently without requiring a huge, massive, thousand page bill that sweeps everything under the rug - the more pages that go into a bill, the more pork that seems to be packed in.

If this bill becomes law, I can only wonder what it means for the legislative process. It would seem that we now have a crony legislature in addition to crony capitalism.

Healthcare reform began in Arpil. It has been nearly nine months. There has been adequate debate. Perhaps the debate would have been more constructive had Republicans been willing to negotiate rather than obstruct. Anyway, it is disingenuous to feign shock and outrage about the legislative process and the implications this bill will have for it. This behavior is de rigueur for Congress; it always has been and always will be.