Baucus' health care proposal is like a used car with a broken axle and bad alternator. It has most of the pieces a health care system would need but is lacking critical components, making it basically useless. Without sufficient subsidies, a good minimum standard for benefits, and a public option to hold down costs, Baucus' health care plan will end up a disaster.
Baucus' watered down health care bill is like buying your teenager a used car with a broken axle. Technically, a non-working car is a big step up from having no car. It has 85% of what they should want in a car, but your teenager is not going to be excited that you bought him a car. They are going to be pissed that you gave them something useless, which they need to put thousands of dollars into just to get it to work.
Crossposted on The Walker Report