So it looks like there’s now a healthcare reform on the books. Compared to other industrialized countries, it’s pretty weak tea. The fact alone that it preserves and expands the evil for-profit insurance company industry is beyond amazing, until you consider the fact that those folks have a huge influence, thru lobbyists and campaign contributions, on Washington’s decision-makers. When you consider it that way, it’s amazing they passed anything at all.
The GOP played this to the hilt, trying to force a Waterloo failure on President Obama, but it clearly backfired on them. In fact, it may prove to be the Republicans’ Waterloo, as they’ve hitched their ammo wagon to a failed agenda, and the American people, as they find out what the bill does, will for the most part embrace it. If a voter likes healthcare reform, they won’t vote for a candidate vowing to try to repeal it.
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