Health Care Reform RIP
Kill the Health Care Reform Bill. Put it out of its misery. Most of us are against prolonging death. We understand that life can become so compromised that there is no reason to keep the body in a state suffering and dying. The mercy we show to our pets we would ask for ourselves.
And so the time has come to euthanize our once beloved Health Care Reform Bill. The glittering dream of many liberals, including me, is now a hollow shell, a not so beautiful corpse, from which the spirit has departed.
Meant to reign in the insurance companies, to stop them from capping people, rescinding policies of sick people and denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, it has been turned into a bailout of insurance companies. They retain the ability to charge more for old or sick people while legally mandating that people buy their, often defective, products at extortionate prices.
Without containment of either medical or insurance costs, both individuals and the government will pay through the nose. The hundreds of millions of dollars that big insurance and big pharma donated to rent our politicians was money well spent.
Does anyone really believe that Joe Lieberman is blocking all the provisions that restrict insurance companies because of deeply held moral principles? What state does he represent? Oh, Connecticut. Where is the Insurance Industry headquartered? Oh, Connecticut. Hmmm.
Without cost containment and without either a public option or expansion of Medicare, but with the legal requirement for everyone to purchase it, this should be pronounced dead. What the Republicans only tried to kill, the Democrats have succeeded in killing. The Republicans were relentless and the Democrats feckless. Its heart has been removed and it's starting to stink. Bury it.
©2009 Jonathan Dobrer
www.Dobrer.com
Given the normal pace of congressional action — including the usual Republican obstruction — this would mean no action on healthcare for at least a month or two. Maybe more like three or four. Or maybe never.
New pronouncements seem to come almost hourly on this stuff, so I'll wait for a few other folks to chime in before coming to any conclusions. But if healthcare is now domestic priority #4, it might as well be domestic priority #100. It might not quite be dead, but no matter what Obama said in his State of the Union address, the grim reaper is starting to hover uncomfortably close by.
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