Today, 40 senior congressional leaders joined U.S. President Barack Obama around a table to find a way to reconcile differences and pass out healthcare reform legislation. No deal. After seven hours of posturing, policy makers couldn’t get passed go on four fundamental, philosophical positions.
- What’s most critical? Cost or Access
- Who steers the reform? Markets or Government
- Who should set the standards? Markets or Government
- Which approach is best? Comprehensive or Incremental
For Democrats the answers for these four questions are: Access, Government, Government, and Comprehensive. Conversely, Republicans answer: Cost, Markets, Markets, Incremental. Zero out of Four matches.
Senator Kent Conrad of North Dekota stated, “We have a system that is characterized by chaos.”
Even the numbers don’t add up. “We’re bending it up (cost curve).” warned Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. ”Ignoring costs does not remove them from taxpayers’ backs.”
Today’s summit exposed just how vast the gulf of differences are, even with the basics. We’re back at square one again.
For me, it’s Cost, Markets, Government and Comprehensive. Final answer. That’s two for two. What about you?
The problem with this country is BOTH the Democrats and Republicans. Anyone who seriously thinks that one side isn’t corrupt or slaves to Corporate America hasn’t done an adequate job of paying attention. To the Republicans: The GW administration will go down in History as one of the worst administrations. They eroded your constitutional rights, expanded the power of the wealthy elite, invaded countries under false pretenses, destroyed diplomatic relations with the rest of the world, and spent money like it was going out of style. To the Democrats: Obama is a dud. He promised much and has turned out to be another corporate lackey. He made deals with big pharma to ensure you could not get your medication cheaper elsewhere, he flip flopped on military tribunals, he refuses to fix health care properly through nationalization or single payer, he populates his inner circle with more Wall Street insiders, he spends money on bailouts and useless stimulus packages.
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