This is yet another diary about HCR. Especially pointed toward those that wish to declare this some kind of victory. IMHO, it is not.
For all of you who say this is a win, read this.
If you think allowing one turncoat Senator to hold 40 million Americans hostage to an industry that has no morals is some kind of incremental win, take the link above and read it. All of it.
Victory, in almost any endover is rarely all or nothing. In the case of HRC, a substantial win with a strong public option is all we as voters asked for. Not a total wipeout of the insurance industry. Not a scorched earth of medical coverage. But a fair and balanced way for ALL Americans to get REAL health coverage at a rate they could afford. Not a watered down promise of only some kind of coverage to be determined by the very industry we are trying to reform.
As others here have pointed out, all this bill does is provide a way for the insurance industry to make more money selling "health coverage" without the assurance of actual health CARE being provided. Make sure you who are declaring victory understand that statement in its' full implication.
And for those of you who say that we should insure the 30 million and get the other 10 million later on, you live in a world of numbers and not human suffering. You live in a world of Republican values that understates humanity in favor of appearence.
Do not be fooled. We have been shamed again, and like any good abused person some of us will take what little comfort we can that the abuse was not as bad as the last time, and in the HOPE that it will not happen again in the future. When deep in our hearts, we know it will.
KILL THE BILL!!!!!!