re: #1328 wozzablog

the Obama plan - as it was initially envisioned was devilish in it’s simplicity.

Clean up the anti-trust, allow coverage across borders and make coverage transferable.

The issue was that he also wanted a Public Option - an insurance plan people with no care, and small firms priced out elsewhere could buy into. It would then operate like any other plan - except it would not throw you off or deny you due to a pre-existing condition.

None of that was supported by Joe Lieberman’s concience - and the entire myre we find ourselves in with hundreds of extra pages are tweaks around the edges that will enable as many people as possible to get into the System without a public option as possible.

It was not complicated to begin with.

They needed to figure out what they wanted to do, get all the tweaking done, then gone out and “made the sale”, tweak a bit more depending on what they heard.

Right now it just looks to regular folks like the folks up in DC are chickens running around with their heads cut off - like they have no clue what’s going on. It doesn’t “show” well as far as giving people any confidence.