My OperaHealth-Care proposals in Washington.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:02:38 PM
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/07/28/the-health-care-bill-dies/
Yes. You can't actually pass anything useful in Washington, unless the people there are invested in voters actually benefiting from what they do. Democracy, you see.
The reason a real health-care bill is not going to get passed is simple: because nobody in Washington really wants it. There is insufficient political will to get it done. It doesn’t matter that it’s an urgent national calamity, that it is plainly obvious to anyone with an IQ over 8 that our system could not possibly be worse and needs to be fixed very soon, and that, moreover, the only people opposing a real reform bill are a pitifully small number of executives in the insurance industry who stand to lose the chance for a fifth summer house if this thing passes.
Yes. You can't actually pass anything useful in Washington, unless the people there are invested in voters actually benefiting from what they do. Democracy, you see.
