The bill sucks. That being said, it is a marginal improvement over the status quo. More importantly, it DOES reject the mentality of the status quo: that health care is a service reserved only for the privileged who can pay for it. The Republicans ensured that this would not be a good bill, but in the end, they lost, and they lost hard.
And as people begin to realize that the fearmongering about what the bill will do to your average American are, simply put, lies, it won't do for the Republicans what they hope.
And the main reason this bill sucks is because it was watered down to be bi-partisan, and the Republicans still said no, THEN dragged up sorry excuses to say no that had little to nothing to do with the actual bill.
That said, it's a step in the right direction, at least.
I couldn't agree more with both of you. Although the bill is a step in the right direction, after 17 months of wrangling it was so watered down as to be largely ineffective.
I fear this is symptomatic of the present state of the US political system--it's so polarised (and fear a paranoia are such a common tactic) the any radical change (or even effective government) is nigh on impossible.
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And as people begin to realize that the fearmongering about what the bill will do to your average American are, simply put, lies, it won't do for the Republicans what they hope.
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That said, it's a step in the right direction, at least.
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I fear this is symptomatic of the present state of the US political system--it's so polarised (and fear a paranoia are such a common tactic) the any radical change (or even effective government) is nigh on impossible.
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