Republicans are learning an unpleasant lesson this morning: The only thing worse than having no health-care reform plan is releasing a bad one, getting thrashed by CBO and making the House Democrats look good in comparison.
I read with pleasure yesterday that the Senate version of the Health Care Reform bill will include a public option. However, my excitement was almost instantly checked when in the next sentence I read that the States would hold the power to opt out of the public option.
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We cannot, it seems, have a candid national conversation on health care.
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - Butch Hancock, Musician, the Flatlanders
The topic: lessons learned the last time a Democratic president tried, but failed disastrously, to overhaul the health care system.
Some thing strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected. It has best been summarized by the comedian Bill Maher: "The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republi cans have moved to a mental hospital."
President Barack Obama on Saturday used his weekly address to "spend a few minutes debunking" what he called "some of the more outrageous myths" about his health care proposals.
An interesting article from the UK concerning the health care system here in the US.
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