It was a huge success. That is why Big Pharma is running ads all over the country, especially for Harry Reid, supporting there money making candidates.
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > I believe that things have definitely gotten more polarized over the > years, but I can't agree that the Health Insurance Reform bill > (debacle?) was an example of an unwillingness to compromise. > Apparently you don't remember the whole Gang of 6, which set the tone > in the Senate and dictated large portions of the bill. Or that many of > the most entrenched portions of the bill, like the individual mandate, > were originally proposed by Republicans. Or how about the negotiations > with Pharma and AHIP that dictated important details? > > That bill had Republican and Industry finger prints all over it. As a > result, it is rather weak tea and will only do small, incremental > steps to fix things. It is a triumph of mediocrity precisely because > of all the compromises. But in this day and age, even a compromise > represents a "victory" for the party in power so the minority is going > to vote against it anyway. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322829 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
