re: #1259 avanti

I think some sort of a bill must pass, we’ve tried and failed so many times. Perhaps a scaled down bill with some cost cutting in place that could be expanded later.

Why must a bill pass? Why must it pass now? Why must Obama completely rejigger all of health care, when the government can’t even begin to fix the mess that is Medicare, Medicaid, or even Bush’s prescription drug entitlement? All cost far more than their originators ever envisioned. They were off by several orders of magnitude, and this bill seeks to expand the Medicare mess to all Americans? Sorry, but that’s not a fix that will improve health care. It will make it more expensive to all Americans in the form of higher taxes and fees, and lower quality of care.

Fix the existing entitlements before starting any new ones.