What the current health care bill reminds me of:

[Botany]

In Sept. 1938 English P.M. Neville Chamberlain traveled to Munich and gave Nazi Germany part of Czechoslovakia
and then returned to the U.K. and said that the paper he and Hitler had just signed would guarantee "peace in our
time," Hitler lunched WW II one year later.

The Medical Profit Protection Bill so far; (thanx to DUer Shred for the following list to which I have added a few things)

*NO single payer
*NO public option
*NO expansion of Medicare coverage
*NO cost controls
*NO re-importation of drugs
*NO negotiating for lower drug prices
*Capped coverage for expensive care
*Mandatory purchasing of private insurance (with fines if you don't give money to the very companies that have caused all the deaths, debt,
and paid for the teabaggers and Dick Army's bull crap.)

This bill codifies and increases the profits made by insurance, big pharma, and HMOs. It is a sellout to the for profit health care industry, will drag down
the democratic party in 2010 and 2012, and do very little to reform health care in America.

:rant:

[Laelth]

1. It's a sell out to the health insurance cabal. No doubt.

Doing nothing would be better. Here's why:

The current system is unsustainable, and everyone knows it. Change will come, eventually, UNLESS we pass the disastrous bill that's currently on the table.

California will probably pass single-payer on its own in 2011. All they need is a Democratic Governor. The legislature has already passed the bill. Schwarzenegger vetoed it. Once California has single-payer, most (if not all) states will follow suit.

It's likely that if we pass a new law now, the new law will preempt single-payer, i.e. the Federal law will preempt state law and prevent states from enacting a single-payer system.

THIS is what the health insurance companies fear. THIS is what brought them to the bargaining table. THIS is why they are not fighting Obama's tepid reforms, and THIS is why it is extremely important that we do not pass any health insurance reform bill this year.

Let's not settle for a bail-out of the health insurance industry. Let's insist on the eradication of it. In all likelihood, California will lead the way in 2011 ... if we can just give them time.

Canada got its single-payer system one province at a time. That seems to be the way it will have to happen in the U.S.

:dem:

-Laelth

[leftofcool]

2. A joke?

[RevCheesehead]

3. I think you nailed it....appeasement.

K & R

:kick:

[Botany]

6. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fave?

[RevCheesehead]

7. Kewl!

Bay-Air back riding! :bounce::bounce:

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Re-com-MENDED!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Or, this...

[damntexdem]

8. Worse: the enemy is not across a Channel, they're right here.

Think of a Palin presidency.