Using "reconciliation" for healthcare

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Soleron said:

adriane23 said:

Soleron said:
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I completely agree, but threatening or even mentioning reconciliation before the summit was a poor decision. It's basically giving the message "If you don't compromise with us, we'll just go around you......kick rocks bitch." With heavy emphasis on the bitch part.....

Edit: I'm at work so I can only read the CNN updates but did McCain just have a 2008 campaign flashback???

You'd think the Democrats could have got one major policy (i.e. this) through this term, since they had a majority in both houses and a President with soaring approval ratings. Why didn't they?

Because people didn't want this

The Democrats started with a "problem" most people were mostly satisfied with, came up with a solution that nobody wanted and focused on in to the detriment of everything else.

 

Had they wanted to pass jobs legislation, carbon trading, bank reforms, immediate pullout from iraq.... pretty much everything but this... and they could of did it.

 

However their asnine healthcare proposal lost them all credibility... it's just so poorly conceived it's mindboggling... it's why they had to jump through hoops and put bribes in to various states just to get their own members to vote for it.

 

US disease surivival rates are up their with the "best" healthcare systems in the world... better then a lot actually.  The problem most people had was the cost... of which this bill actually does nothing to fix. 

All it does is give people money from the government to pay for part of it... with no controls to prevent the bills from getting any higher and ending up at the same costs for the consumer before hand.

In fact,  Medicare payments had to go up to bribe our Medical Assosiations to say the plans weren't disorganized and probably going to cost lives.

 

In general... medical costs will go up... not down here, because the Democrats have no interest in taking on the drug companies.