sorry, I don't think it's gonna happen.
Every news story today is talking about the brilliance of bipartisan compromise, and then the description of what the compromise is is such utter bullshit that it makes me feel like, like, what does it make me feel like? oh yeah, the exact same way I felt when I read John McCain's healthcare platform off his website last summer. It's nothing. It's not going to do a fucking thing. Not a fucking thing for anyone who needs it, and it's going to cost too much.
You know what I think?
I think all the people saying we have to push for single-payer were right, and all of us thinking public option was just fine and dandy, "much more politically feasible," I think we were fucking wrong.
So, what to do now. Seriously? Seriously, I'm going to have to move out of this goddamn country, if my wife lives long enough for me to graduate from grad school.
Move to a fucking civilized country, throw a fucking stone and I'll hit a country that offers health care to its inhabitants.
The brilliant words of Michelle Obama come to mind, with mild tweaking: For the however-manyeth time in my adult life, I recognize that any pride in my country is a shortlived and misplaced thing...