Reply #175: he's asking for entirely different changes than Kucinich [View All]

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. . . whose own vote was (knowingly) inconsequential to the passage of the House bill. If Lieberman gets what he wants, the bill is even crappier. Why would we hold up the legislation for his crap? If the Senate holds to form, this bill will get even dicier. I think they can do better, in this term, even if this bill goes down. Preexisting condition provisions can be mandated in separate legislation. The rest wasn't going to provide anything to the Average American without health insurance today, so I don't know what's the hurry in wrapping this flawed bill up so fast. After the 1993 defeat of the Clinton health bill, we got SCHIP (Children's Health Insurance). I believe the defeat of this legislation could spur Congress to put together most of the elements of this legislation which actually would work to our benefit in the increments that this legislation (anyway) promises to dole out benefits -in this Congress. I mean, a watered-down public option promised after 2013?? I've got a bridge I'd like to sell believers.

(I haven't done a thing outside of this discussion board to defeat this legislation, only appealing to Congress to make it better. But I won't work to advocate for this crap as it stands)