re: #274 Walter L. Newton

You mean the Democrats are not capable enough to come up with comprehensive enough health care reform. You don’t have much faith in the Democratic Party. So close to a victory, yet so upset about it. Strange.

What part of this are you failing to understand? I think that if the Republicans actually constructively participated in the health care debate some of their ideas could have been implemented to the benefit of the American people. I don’t think the Democrats have the perfect solution. And I think that we are worse off because there was no attempt at all made by the Republicans to craft this legislation into a better bill.

In fact, they have committed to ensuring that the bill is WORSE by making the repeal of terrible provisions such as the “cornhusker kickback” more difficult. All in the name of complete cynicism. Not in the interest of helping Americans. Not in the interest of fixing health care. In the interest of hoping that the Democrats fail by passing a bill that makes Americans worse off.