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…is very shitty.  No public option, yet still $800 billion, and doesn’t even require health insurance companies to not discriminate based on pre-existing conditions until 2013, after the next Presidential election.  Gee I wonder why that is, not hoping and praying by you corporate assholes that some republican somehow wins?  You guys make me sick.  You blue-dogs make me sick too.  I hope this shit goes down in flames.

Why do we have to have THE health care bill?  Can’t we take a more modular approach to this?  For example, even the republicans are willing to make insurance companies take anybody regardless of pre-existing condition and not allow a limit on how much they will cover financially (lifetime limit).  So why can’t we pass a number of smaller bills.  Get that one through first, few will disagree, it’ll pass tomorrow and could be effective immediately.  That’d already be a really good improvement.  There could be a different regulation bill, records-keeping bill, etc.  Pass what can pass.  If we don’t have enough votes in the Senate for a public option, well, what can you really do unfortunately (except pass it in reconciliation).

Maybe just make these changes that we can now, and if the public likes what Obama/dems are doing, we have more Senate seats we could pick up in 2010/2012, maybe if we get 63 or 64 dems in the Senate, then we can create a public health option.  I’m not sure why it has to be all-at-once, all-or-nothing.  Fear of no opportunity in the future and make something half-assed anyway(?) instead of confidence that people will like what we do and reward us?

I don’t know, I’m not a capitol hill expert, but it seems to me the way to really regulate healthcare would be to constantly be looking at it and working on it, not do something once every quarter-century and then let the private industry react, curcumvent, and fester on it’s own until it becomes shitty again.