Reply #10: Of course...

[lapfog_1]

there are a number of good things in the bill. I currently have no health insurance, and a pre-existing condition that makes purchasing health insurance for me impossible.

I would be one of the few that might benefit from this bill. I say might because I suspect, the way things are worded, that I STILL won't be able to afford insurance, even after 2014, even with the subsidies.

So I should be all for it, even if I think that it's only a small chance that it will help me.

But I also see the bad in it, the enormous cost, the transfer of wealth from the middle class to the insurance companies, for what might be minimal improvements, the complexity that makes even discussing the aspects of this bill difficult, even for reasonably intelligent people, and, finally, the political cost of having to give in to assholes like Lieberman and Nelson, and the very real possibility that Democratic support in the mid-terms will be less than in 2008. I fear a republican return to power... whereas only a short 6 months ago, some pundits were calling the Republicans a regional party and a permanent minority.
I don't hear that kind of language anymore, what I hear now is "will the Dems retain the majority in the House?" and "how will anything else get done without 60 votes in the Senate starting in 2011."

So yeah, it's difficult. But I believe the bad outweighs the good.