| Mr Khan said: Patience will be a killer for this sort of thing. All the more need to ram it through now, imperfect as it is, then it can be tweaked later. If the bill fails, then it'll be decades again before the political capital is mustered to try, and some of the stuff in the bill is stuff we definitely need (like stopping very predatory industry practices that encourage denial of care, and regulating prescription drug prices)
Its imperfect, but ultimately the choice is do it now, or in 25 years (or so).
mrstickball's idea would have a better impact, because the components of this bill are pretty much all common sense stuff, but together it makes it something that the fearmongers can easily point to and demonize with their demagoguery |
It really can't be tweaked later.
Government programs are pretty much never tweaked even when there are obvious ways to fix things.
That's why most legislation gets bogged down in changes small little bits of dialogue senators are upset with because they know to tweak it later is near impossible even if there are huge loopholes that are obvious.
