Health care reform

[Matt J]

SWGB, with your vast experience and knowledge, you may be able to understand and digest all the nuances and hidden agendas in a bill over 2000 pages but, unfortunately, our Representative and Senators cannot.

Welcome to the Snark Side.

 

[30ashopper]

Who cares what the length of the bill is? 2,000; 3,000; 10,000 pages what's the difference? You're simply using right wing talking points about the length of the bill,. As usual conservatives are more concerned with length than substance.

You missed my point, I wasn't complaining about a 2000 page bill, I was complaining that in those 2000 pages, Pelosi and Reid failed to address one of the two major problems with our healthcare system. Wouldn't you agree that's a problem?

I'm not defending reps solutions, as I'm not convinced they have solutions to these issues either. But I do think, that if the two sides are working together, we stand a far better chance of getting these problems solved in a reasonable way. Clearly we can't trust a single party to do the job.

 

[30ashopper]

Buffett: Scrap the bill.

“We have a health system that, in terms of costs, is really out of control,” he added. “And if you take this line and you project what has been happening into the future, we will get less and less competitive. So we need something else.”

But while Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, applauded Obama for taking up the reform effort, he said that “unfortunately, we came up with a bill that really doesn't attack the cost situation that much.”


Asked if he would be in favor of scrapping the Senate health care bill, Buffett responded: “I would be.”​

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/33693.html#ixzz0gx1GBOAM

 

[Lynnie]

I think it best to start over. Presenting the right bi-partisan bill will not take long. Nor will it take a lengthy period to pass. It is repeatedly stone-walled now because it doesn't address tort and pharma reform (key issues imo). Getting these two items under control in and of themselves will open up additional monies to begin to cover the 20MM or so who are presently not covered through no fault or choice of their own.