HCR Passes

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

.......3) I hope it works. And if it doesn't I hope enough Dems have the character to recognize it's failings and dump it rather than try to fix it with endless buckets of money.

I understand. I felt this way about the war.

[bewitched]

HR is a big f#@*ing deal!

[bewitched]

This just in:

Republican party begins feeding on its young:

In a brief interview with the Huffington Post following the House's passage of the health care reform bill, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Cali.) scoffed at the idea that his party misstepped by going all in against Obama's health care proposal. Asked about a widely circulated column by former Bush speechwriter David Frum, which argued that the GOP would have benefited in the long run by having traded support for more conservative legislative language, the California Republican attacked the messenger.

"A former staffer, and you're calling it credible?" Issa said. "We have an obligation to vote, at the end of the day, based on whether we believe it's the right direction, the wrong direction, not withstanding some former Bush staffer. Remember, President Bush was the administration that got us voted out of office. They were the big spenders. So the credibility of the Bush administration on domestic economic policy ain't so good, period. And this is an unaccountable person."

Frum was fired today by The American Enterprise Institute.

[BarTopDancer]

Senators are receiving death threats. WTF is wrong with people. WTF is wrong with this country. When did we turn into a bunch of children stomping our feet and making threats because we didn't get our way. The volatile political divide that has been growing over the past few years is getting scary.

[innerSpaceman]

HCR is bittersweet at best for all women. And thus should be for us all.

The article is by a friend of a friend. Looking at the HRC from a point of view that makes it look pretty awful, and I'm generally a supporter. There's just so much not right about it though. Ugh and le sigh.

[Morrigoon]

Per your link (bolding mine):

However, Congress voted for a health insurance reform bill that codifies Hyde Amendment language through the Nelson restrictions; permits gender- and age-rating for small businesses; omits LGBT-specific provisions; allows discrimination against immigrant workers; and lacks a public option.

Excuse me, WTF??? How did I miss this? Since when is there no public option?

[Alex]

Since early December when the Senate version dropped not only the public option but any triggers that might eventually invoke one.