Reading the Washington Post this morning, I came across a Letter to the Editor by Edwin L. Fountain of Arlington, Virginia criticizing how a health care reform op-ed by Michael Kinsley that had run a few days earlier had labeled the practice of insurers not covering preexisting conditions as "odious":
As a result, in the 14 years since [Clinton's attempt at reform failed], millions more are uninsured, and here we are trying reform again. I'd like to think that if it goes down this time -- when even the insurance companies are on board, promising to eliminate their odious policies about preexisting conditions -- Republicans will pay for having killed it, if indeed they do kill it. But they didn't pay the last time.
Fountain's response, while you may or may not agree with it, puts the entire health insurance/health care debate in its proper context:
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