Watering down health care until you can pass it? Is this the game?

[Cleita]

Or so some "expert" just said on MSNBC. Paraphrasing here. He was actually talking about getting energy bills passed but said something to the effect that you could water down health care bills until you got something you could pass, but that you can't do that with energy. :wtf: Is this what they are doing just passing any old bill that everyone agrees on to get it out of the way? In the meantime, how many people will go without needed treatments, drugs and will even die because of a watered down health care plan that passes through Congress that keeps the insurance companies secure in their profits at our expense?

[OHdem10]

1. As long as their goal is more to appease Republicans more than

providing a good Health Care System, the result can be nothing but
a watered down bill.

Allen did say that by getting Franken this can change the watering
down. The Dems now have 60 votes and can, as he explains it,
musle it through. Franken should put some calcium in their (Dems)
spine.

[Cleita]

2. I don't know about appeasing Republicans, but I think it has a lot to do with

appeasing health care and insurer donors to those Republicans.

[stray cat]

3. Maybe just not passing it is the other alternative - maybe better to do nothing

[Cleita]

4. If they aren't going to do it right, like a legacy legislation like Social

Security and Medicare, I'd just as soon they leave it alone until they are ready to come to the table and do the honest thing not the political thing.