Prediction: The health care bill will be better than we expect...but not perfect....

[Flabbergasted]

I've had the feeling a couple times lately that ultimately the democrats will cave to the public. They will see that the price of not doing what the American People want by and large, will be too great, and they will enact a public Health Care plan that will include a pretty decent public option.

[rockymountaindem]

1. Maybe, but your dog looks alarmed n/t

[Flabbergasted]

3. His Vet is expensive. nt

[jberryhill]

9. Vet? That dog needs a therapist /nt

[Flabbergasted]

2. .

[bird hunter]

4. Prediction: Health Care Insurance Company Lobbyists will write the health care bill. NT

[dflprincess]

5. You are an optimist and I truly hope you're right

but my prediction is, they will act to save their campaign "contributions" and we will wind up worse off than we are now.

edited for spelling - and to add I love the dog's picture. It looks like he took it of himself.

[Flabbergasted]

6. No I'm being optimistic but I'm actually pretty cynical.

:)

[demmiblue]

7. My guess is that it would depend upon whether or not you are...

personally affected by the lack of health care. Or, if you can sympathize/empathize with those who don't. "Decent" probably means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

:shrug:

[IndianaGreen]

8. Prediction: BOHICA

There is no one at the table representing the interests of the working class. Borrowing a page from Trotsky, American workers "must take the political leadership of the whole struggle, which above all will be a proletarian struggle, then it is clear that victory in this struggle must transfer power to the class that has led the struggle."

[elleng]

11. Won't happen,

whatever Trotsky said, imo. Not enough Americans think of themselves as workers/proletarians.

[IndianaGreen]

12. WSJ: White House caves on public option

Read it and weep:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124692407982802911.html#mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy

[avaistheone1]

14. What a bunch of quitters from the top rignt on down.

[uponit7771]

15. Why are we taking what the WSJ say seriously? Congress hasn't caved and the bills...

...going through it have the public option there.

[MannyGoldstein]

10. At Least As Good As The Bankruptcy Act Was

And it will require immediate enormous cash infusions for bankers.

That's my prediction.

[leftstreet]

13. I say we just bail out the insurance industry now. Get it over with

Why wait around?

[asteroid2003QQ47]

16. Be 'patient,' Grasshopper, in due time! (I suspect you know the drill.) n/t

[RDANGELO]

17. Here is my prediction.

For what it's worth, there will be public option, but it will only be available for lower income earners, maybe $40,000 for a family, $30,000 for individual. Over time that threshold will be raised. This will be just the beginning of the war with the health care industry. Eventually they will ne beaten down like the tobacco companies.