How long before Congress revisits health care "reform?"

[Truth2Tell]

Poll question: How long before Congress revisits health care "reform?"

It's been 16 years since the last failed effort to reform the corrupt and broken racket that passes for an American "health care system."

Prior to the Great Hillary Fail of '93, we saw major efforts to "fix" this system come down the pike every 15-30 years. So when will we see the next one?

And will the next round be the result of the obvious failure of this particular round? Or will it simply be an effort to improve upon this current thing? Or will it be an effort to undo what's being done today?

Or are we done? Problem fixed?

My guess is that this "reform" will be widely exposed as a fraud before Obama has a chance to slink out of the White House, but it will still take more than 15 years to revisit this and start over. But we will. So my vote is for Dems back in over 15 years to start over.

Poll result (22 votes)
The Democrats will be back within 7 years to build on this bill.	(9 votes, 41%)	Vote
The Democrats will be back within 7 years to start over.	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
The Republicans will be back within 7 years to roll back this bill.	(1 votes, 5%)	Vote
The Democrats will be back within 15 years to build on this bill.	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
The Democrats will be back within 15 years to start over.	(1 votes, 5%)	Vote
The Republicans will be back within 15 years to roll back this bill.	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
The Democrats will be back in over 15 years to build on this bill.	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
The Democrats will be back in over 15 years to start over.	(1 votes, 5%)	Vote
The Republicans will be back in over 15 years to roll back this bill.	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
It's all over. This will not be revisited for at least a generation.	(10 votes, 45%)	Vote

[provis99]

1. Nope. Health care reform is finished for at least a generation.

Look at what happened the last time we had health care "reform". Nixon gave us HMOs, and that was way back in the early '70s.

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. If everyone is "covered" by forced payment to corporations

...there will NEVER be a discussion of REAL reform.

[emulatorloo]

3. I think they start back again after Veterans Day technically speaking

"before Obama has a chance to slink out of the White House"

interesting choice of words for a member of Democratic Underground

[Muttocracy]

4. I thought that was a pretty telling choice of words as well. nt

[Jennicut]

5. Obviously, Obama is a traitor to all man kind and must "slink" out the WH.

Laws are revisited all the time. What makes anyone think this one will be any different? The huge hurdle is getting laws on the books to begin with. Social Security was tinkered with so many times.

[Muttocracy]

7. apparently passing this will be worse than the 1993 bill not passing

though I am too dumb to understand why.

[Jennicut]

10. LOL. I guess vabrella, and Greenbriar, and William Pitt's wife and me

should all just pray our preexisting conditions go away while the Dems heroically make a better bill.

[Truth2Tell]

14. Hey, as long as you get yours, that's what matters. nt

[Jennicut]

16. Yes, I am so selfish!

Not wanting to wait for a law to cover something that should have been covered years ago is "getting mine". Pathetic reasoning.

[Truth2Tell]

21. Pathetic reasoning is determining the worth of bill

based only on how it affects you and your friends.

You're the one who dragged your own circumstances into this discussion.

[Muttocracy]

15. yeah, that worked real well for my dead uninsured grandmother. nt

[emulatorloo]

17. I feel like the fiercest critics of this bill may not have had to deal with the healthcare system

as it exists today, or have never had a friend or love one denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition.

I could be wrong, but that is the feeling I get.

As ugly and imperfect as this bill may be, there are some good things in it that will help people.

[Jennicut]

19. I have no idea. I guess some of us are just tired of living in fear of being

rejected or dropped for coverage while some have never had that experience.

[cornermouse]

23. You are wrong.

My child needed medicine that cost $70,000 a year. The insurance company didn't want him on the rolls so they doubled the premium. When we found a way to pay the doubled premium, they doubled it again a few months later. (hint: no caps on what they could charge...) Since then my child no longer requires the medicine and although its been years, when I tried recently to get health insurance for my child, I was still unable to get it. I was told that since my child has medicaid, my child has "insurance" and is therefore covered. Unfortunately, finding a doctor who will accept medicaid is nearly impossible around here.

What has been passed will be a financial disaster for many, many people and when the next election takes place, I predict, a disaster for the democratic party. I can't believe the party leaders were dumb enough to pass this.

[Truth2Tell]

12. Let me help.

After the '93 bill failed to pass it was widely understood that we had failed to achieve health care reform. Lesson learned. This time America will be blasted with the message that health care reform has been done, when in fact it hasn't. That will take a whole lot longer to overcome.

[Truth2Tell]

6. Is this Obama Underground?

I must've missed the memo.

[emulatorloo]

13. dunno, is this Character Attack On Obama Underground?

Or is "Snake" meant as a friendly nickname?

[Hippo_Tron]

8. Probably after President Obama is re-elected

Politically this was the big leap forward. Adjustments are much easier to do.

[Umbral]

9. Not in my lifetime. nt

[ProleNoMore]

11. Were Done For 20 Years - Selling Out Has Consequences

eom

[bluestateguy]

18. Sigh

We can't have one, just one, damn night on DU without somebody bitching about something even when we accomplish a goal.

[Truth2Tell]

20. Who's "we?"

Do you think that "buy into the insurance scam or go to prison" has been a longtime "goal" of most DUers? Or do you have a mouse in your pocket?

[villager]

22. economic collapse will force the next round of "reform" -- at some point, the extortion

being paid to insurance companies will start to dry up, no matter how much fear is drummed into citizens that they'd better "cough up." So to speak...

[Truth2Tell]

24. True, but that doesn't mean Congress will act hastily. nt