. . . a weak public option is worse than no public option at all, and a carelessly constructed public option will just become a dumping ground for high-risk patients that will require billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars to prop up. A couple years ago I said that I thought health care reform was inevitable, the only question would be how bad we would make it and how quickly we would bankrupt ourselves with it. I thought at the time I was being too cynical, but the moderates in both parties are proving me wrong. (Source)
This has been my fear all along as well. We're going to come up with a compromise that will prove the Right's point: that government screws up everything that it touches. The Dems think of what they're doing as reasonable compromise, but the Right understands what they're doing as sabotage. The Right wins if no bill gets passed, and it wins if the Dems compromise essential elements in the bill that make it worth doing. Amazing what you can do with majorities in both houses and a Dem in the White House, isn't it?
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