A Pertinent Summary of Our Sabotaged Healthcare reform !
the best synopsis i've seen so far as to what is really going on :
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3923821
7. It's a compromise designed to defeat the whole purpose of healthcare 
reform
	
Edited on Mon Jun-15-09 01:43 PM by kenny blankenship
They tried to put it off altogether with some polite Republican idea of 
a "trigger" period, an interval during which govt. agrees to do nothing 
at all, while in exchange the insurance co.s dial back their greed 
temporarily. The net "benefit" to the American people of the trigger 
idea is to dissipate legislative will to reform the system, wait out the 
anger of the public, and cause the people to give up hope. And after the 
trigger period expires, the insurance corporations and their political 
monkeys go back to the business of juicing Americans as usual. But that 
is too brazen.
So now they're figuring out ways how to enact "reform" while making sure 
the reforms cannot work and bring discredit to the idea that these 
crushing problems have a political solution.
Mind you, these are the Democrats that are knifing healthcare reform in 
the crib. They may blame it on Republicans but the fact is that the 
Democrats could pass whatever plan they wanted to. It seems though that 
they only want to pass a plan that the Republicans will agree to, but 
Republicans are obdurate and cohesive. (They actually act like a party 
sometimes) Consequently the Democrats are limiting themselves to voting 
for a Republican plan, not a Democratic plan. You have to wonder why we 
vote for them.
Do not be deceived: there is no room to make a compromise here. Any 
successful national healthcare plan would negate and invalidate forever 
everything the Republican party believes in and everything it has 
promoted for one hundred years. National healthcare is the death of the 
Republican philosophy. They are facing extinction. Therefore they will 
never agree to any compromise that would have a snowball's chance to 
succeed in practice. However, you MUST pass a viable plan or the 
disasters it causes will spell the end of the Democratic Party; and no 
viable plan will pass except over the GOP's dead body.
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