I'm not real big on arguments from authority, but it's just fun to think of the heads imploding when the kill-billers who are so focused on personalities (positively and negatively - Obama, Harry Reid, Bernie Sanders, "access bloggers", Howard Dean, etc.) read:
Health care reform does nothing, they cry — except for covering 30 million people, ending overpayment on Medicare advantage, making the first real attempt to use medical evidence to guide health care spending, starting up a wide range of pilot projects on cost control while empowering an expert panel to put the results of those projects into effect, providing financial incentives to limit excess coverage, and so on.
But aside from that, you see, it doesn’t do anything.
Of course, there is still time for the conference committee to produce a bill that's such a shit sandwich that no one can swallow it - meaning, the bad clearly outweighs the good. We'll see.
Also, goddess help me, Gawker (via Rumproast):
The options are literally "pass this HANDOUT to the insurance industries (that they are still lobbying against!) that will insure millions of people and improve the social safety net for those in danger of losing their insurance" or "fuck off home to let people continue to die because we got super mad at Senator Fuckface from Connecticut." There is not a third "Alan Grayson and Keith Olbermann and Matt Taibbi are all elected to a new kind of Senate that only needs three votes to pass legislation and they declare us Canada for Christmas" option.
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