Like pretty much everything else Obama and the Congressional Democrats have touched over the last 11 months, the health care reform bill in the U.S. Senate bears no resemblance to what was promised during the 2008 campaign season. Average Americans have been thrown under the bus and the bill is an abomination. The true winners: health insurers and drug companies. As a result many are calling for the bill to be killed for the simple reason that no bill is better than a thoroughly bad bill. But for his insane inclusion of Sarah Palin on the ticket, I am beginning to believe that a McCain administration would have done as much or more than Obama and the clowns comprising the current crop of Congressional Democrats. Howard Dean - a physician himself - is leading the charge to make sure this bill is still born. Here are some of Dean's thoughts via Towleroad:*
Howard Dean seems to be the only person making any sense in the health care bill debate right now, as the holidays approach, and Lieberman's selfish ego digs in, and it looks like Democrats will compromise any bit of actual reform out of the bill just to see it pass.
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Says Dean: "No, absolutely not. You can't vote for a bill like this in good conscience. It costs too much money. It isn't health care reform. It's not even insurance reform."
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Said Dean on NPR earlier: “This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. Honestly the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill, go back to the House, start the reconciliation process, where you only need 51 votes and it would be a much simpler bill
Howard Dean seems to be the only person making any sense in the health care bill debate right now, as the holidays approach, and Lieberman's selfish ego digs in, and it looks like Democrats will compromise any bit of actual reform out of the bill just to see it pass.
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Says Dean: "No, absolutely not. You can't vote for a bill like this in good conscience. It costs too much money. It isn't health care reform. It's not even insurance reform."
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Said Dean on NPR earlier: “This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. Honestly the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill, go back to the House, start the reconciliation process, where you only need 51 votes and it would be a much simpler bill
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The Plum Line has more about the bill and none of it good:
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Dean had previously endorsed the Medicare buy-in compromise without a public option, saying that the key question should be whether the bill contains enough “real reform” to be worthy of progressives’ support. Dean has apparently concluded that the “real reform” has been removed at Lieberman’s behest — which won’t make it easier for liberals to swallow the emerging compromise.
Dean had previously endorsed the Medicare buy-in compromise without a public option, saying that the key question should be whether the bill contains enough “real reform” to be worthy of progressives’ support. Dean has apparently concluded that the “real reform” has been removed at Lieberman’s behest — which won’t make it easier for liberals to swallow the emerging compromise.
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