I guess you have to break a few heart in order to cobble together a good bill...

[WCGreen]

Looking over all the posts lately about family's falling into economic and emotional despair as they watched loved one's fade away for lack of an insurance policy...

It breaks my heart because I know of what they speak.

I delayed going to the doc way back in 1986 because I didn't have insurance and I didn't want anything on my record about pre-existing conditions before I could get employer based health insurance. The state of my health now is directly related to that failure to get simple procedures when they would have helped.

But that is enough about me.

It amazes me that people elected to the Senate or the House can ignore the published suffering caused by the hemorrhaging patchwork of the US Health Care system.

Do they really feel that removed from the lives of everyday Americans that they can completely ignore what is going on in the country they were elected to serve. How can they so callously compartmentalize the suffering of their fellow Americans?

I don't know.

Maybe Cindy Lauper had it right when she sang about Money Changing Everything.

Maybe these "people" truly believe that the greater good is being served, that the concerns of the few can not be allowed to influence the well being of the many. Maybe they fancy themselves as being larger than life and that they were elected to serve the greater good and can not be bothered by the suffering few.

It can all probably be narrowed down to a lifetime of sycophantic aides and lobbyists and power broker building their egos so high that the feel just like Icarus flying toward the glory of legacy.

But the truth is, someday, somewhere, the people will rise in anger. I don't know where that breaking point will spring from nor do I yearn for civic disorder.

I just know that you can not continue to break the hearts of the vanquished souls of the health care system and expect no revolt to rise...

[thunder rising]

1. Tuesday the Baucus proposal comes out of committee. We'll watch the merge. Hang on!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Money does change everything...

And for some people, it makes them greedier.

Others want to share...

I don't know where it ends.

Well said.

K&R

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. They have top notch medical, so do their families

and they have connections...

Now we still need reconciliation and all that... but I ain't holding my breath. Though it seems to be in critical condition after a few codes... so perhaps it will move to intermediate care. (That is the PO)