Re: Republicans must (attempt to) win elections.
by
Faustling
10/06/2009, 3:56 PM #
remember Republicans holding up copies of their bills to reform the medical system?
That was an 11-page "bill." You can't write a health plan in 11 pages, the House bill was over a thousand. The Republicans wrote a wish list and presented it as their "alternative." It doesn't do much but make health insurance payments deductible, and for most of the uninsured, this would not come near to covering the premiums. People with pre-existing conditions could join a "high risk" pool, but how this would be paid for is extremely vague.
If the Democrats were satisfied with making the Republicans look like idiots, they could pass the damn thing and let them try to explain to people why they still can't get health insurance. . . but it would be better to pass a REAL health plan and leave the Republicans to scream about "death panels" and other fairy tales, which are already making them look like idiots.