And I think they call knowing a lot more Republicans than Democrats keeping good company

I’m sure you have a statistic somewhere that says people are happy with what they have, but it’s not been my experience that people are happy. Maybe it’s just a local thing, but I know lots of unhappy people and since I know a lot more Republicans than Democrats it’s not a party thing. Now, most of those same people don’t want this…but they don’t think we have a good system.

I guess we’ll see what happens.

I disagree somewhat on the idea this is an emergency. There are problems to be sure, and lots of horror stories, but most like their coverage and the care they receive. Last Tuesday’s exit polling showed that health care wasn’t the primary concern of voters, and I’m fairly certain that is the case on a national level too. Maybe I’m just being a cynic, but they’re hurrying not out of overt concern for their fellow man but to institute the biggest expansion of the fed since the New Deal while they can. Its political. The more the Dems can do that, the more the GOP has to play on their field. And there is no going back…voters get used to the gov’t providing health care, they’ll look for it to provide other stuff too, and you’ll have both parties fight each other over who will give ‘em the most, fiscal consequences and otherwise be damned.

Who knows, it may not pass the Senate and then it won’t matter.

I know that something isn’t always better than nothing, but how long would this have continued before something was done? How bad does it have to get before someone steps in?

Sorry, but I don’t think this is about providing affordable, quality health care. This is about taking over 1/6th of the economy and ensuring that more and more of the middle class are dependent on the government. The more that are, the more votes Democrats can depend on in the future.

I understand that you’re a lot more trusting of their motives than I, but they’ve provided plenty of reasons for skepticism.

I’m not sure this is the right answer to the problems we have now, but it’s a start. I do believe that affordable, quality healthcare is a right. It falls into that whole “life” and “pursuit of happiness” thing.

But I’ve noticed that nothing really happens in this country until people get either really energized or really ticked off. Right now Dems are pretty energized and Pubs are pretty ticked off. So perhaps this will lead to some real reform over the next few years.

I don’t think this will be the end of the world by any means, but I also don’t think it will solve the problem. But I hope it gets things moving in the right direction because things are pretty bad and no one was making any moves.

Besides that, the politics of it are far less important than the far-reaching consequences of such a terrible bill.