Kasz216 said:
mirgro said:
I will admit I did not read it, but people who have similar opinions have and didn't like it much so I will just take their word for it since I don't have the time to read it now. However I will say what I said before, health care needed to be reformed and the status quo needed to be changed before that cold happen. Think of it as a ball stuck in a rut, it's very hard to get it out of that rut initially, but once it's out it can easily go wherever it wants. I view this buill as that initial push, where it goes from here is still up for debate and for us to see.
So while the bill itself may be bad, in the great scheme of things I believe the bill is absolutely amazing and just what was needed. Not because of its contents, but because of what it will actually, hopefully, do.
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Name one program that worked like that in the history of the US government.
That started out horrible, and was shortly reformed into something great.]
When this passes it will be the status quo for decades. It makes the chance of a single payer system in our lifetimes less likely... not more.
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I was under the impression that that's how Social Security and Medicare came about. I might be wrong about them. I don't see why such an unpopular bill would not be changed in the future into something better.
