>>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/24/health.care/index.html
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>>President Obama said it's been 25 years coming. Try 60 years. Almost every president since Truman has tried to do this and every one of them failed. Like him or dislike him, no one can say any longer that Obama can't get things done. There was a hard core opposition allied against him, huge lobbying money tried to thwart it yet again, there were divisions in his own party, and the American public remains skeptical. He got it done anyway. IMO, and I say this in the same way I would speak of Ronald Reagan, he gets things done. He is a game changer.
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>>Merry Christmas, everyone.
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>Okay... i promised myself I wouldn't respond to this leftist drivel, but you're continued posts and love affair with NoBama really irks me. This guy couldn't get anythhing done without promising everything and giving away the farm to get 60 votes to quell the antagonists. If you look at the polls, Americans don't want this.... yet congress and the liberal do gooders are gonna force it down our throats anyway.
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>All of the stats which I have read say this "historic overhaul" is nothing more than a bandaid to expand government control into healthcare and disproportionately benefits minorities.
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>Why can't the politicrats do what's right for America once?
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>Have you read Glen Beck's book like you said you were going to?

I do not think the bill we are going to wind up with (assuming the differences in the House and Senate bills can be reconciled) is a perfect bill. As you say, there is a lot of disagreement about it and I think Obama and the Democrats got what they could. Truly, I do not understand how anyone could want to stick with the system we have -- runaway costs, tens of millions of people without health insurance, and not even good health compared to other developed countries. In particular I do not understand the hard core resistance to a government run option. It truly mystifies me. And I don't think that's from being a liberal do-gooder.

I know I am not going to convince you but that is my opinion.

Oddly enough, I just took Glenn Beck's book off the TBR shelf yesterday and added it to the stack of (otherwise) read books to be carted down to the basement. I flipped through it and it looks like 300 pages of right wing agitprop. Sorry, not my cup of tea. If you have a use for it, send me your mailing address and I will send it to you. As good as new.