Mr. Baehr:
“While the odds still slightly favor passage of a reform bill this year, the juggling act that is going on at the moment includes lots of balls in the air and jugglers with less than world class skills”
The balls that they may have already dropped are the ones that bother me.
I’ve been following this issue in a true moonbat sweat-lodge blog, and the progressive hive-mind there has been distressingly laser-focused on the Public Option, since it FINALLY penetrated their nuggets that outright Single Payer is not going to happen. (It only took all summer long, and the tanking of the Nobel Prize winning Alleged Hawaiian’s poll numbers, but then that’s Liberals for ya…)
But in all their screeching and caterwauling, none give a moment’s consideration to more mundane reforms like allowing health care commerce across state lines or removal of the anti-trust exemptions, let alone such, (to my mind), lead-pipe cinches like standardization of billing and nomenclature,
(f’rinstance, an appendectomy performed in Utah should be called the same, and consist of the same sub-sets of prcedures and treatments as one performed in Florida), so that consumers can comparison shop between coverages.
TMK, and I haven’t read the bills,(but then, neither has Congress if the past is predictive), these kinds of reform haven’t been seriously entertained, let alone debated.
I hope I’m wrong in this.
We might be undergoing gastro-intestinal surgery when a few antacid tablets might have been just as effective.
And in this suspicious rush to legislate, it seems that the Democratic majority leadership had Single Payer or “Son of Single Payer”,(PO), in mind from the very start, and have been charging towards it at full speed ahead to the exclusion of more reasonable and less drastic initiatives ever since.
