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August 19, 2009
Bite Sized Healthcare Reform
Tonight on the Blog Talk Radio show, Stranahan explained that the president should've approached each section of healthcare reform as its own bill. A bill to ban rescission. A bill to ban preexisting condition rules. A bill for the public option, etc.
I don't know if I agree with this approach because one loss could doom everything that follows.
Well, it looks like someone's been listening to Stranahan. The WSJ is reporting tonight:
The White House and Senate Democratic leaders, seeing little chance of bipartisan support for their health-care overhaul, are considering a strategy shift that would break the legislation into two parts and pass the most expensive provisions solely with Democratic votes.
I'd be interested to see how the bill will be split. My worry is that whatever is in the second half might get pushed too close to the 2010 black hole.
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Posted By Bob Cesca | August 19, 2009 9:20 PM
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Separate bills to ban rescission and ban preexisting condition rules would fail utterly. Remember, this is America and you can't tell business how to make it's profit. Or at least that's the mythology - that if you allow government to tell you how to earn a profit, soon they'll be telling you where you can work, what you can eat and that you can't own slaves - that they'd tap into and it would be over before it began.
I think I heard a Republican fucktard mention that in the 60's it was all broken up and you got major legislation in pieces. Civil Rights Act one year, Voting Rights Act the next, then other stuff I'm sure he wouldn't have supported. I don't need any advice from anyone that's not planning to support anything we're doing no matter how palatable we might make it for them.
And as for the Democrats that we'd no doubt be trying to appease with this "break it up into smaller pieces" bullshit -
GET YOUR FUCKING SHIT TOGETHER OR GET THE HELL OUTTA THE WAY ALREADY.
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at August 19, 2009 10:26 PM
So the President, once again, has apparently managed to do both too much ('better to have done many small bills') and too little ('why was single payer off the table?!'). And he's the one with the message problem??
Posted by: J at August 19, 2009 11:02 PM
No. This is the fastest way to lose the public option. NO. This is republican stall and do nothing tactics. I can't say NO F'ING WAY enough.
Posted by: EGB at August 19, 2009 11:37 PM
