Do you think the health care bill will pass?

I have company health insurance for a family of three, for which my share is two grand a year, but I have an impoverished old friend whose public insurance costs very little. I don't know about the insurance card, because I haven't been in a hospital since the law passed (knock on wood). Of course, I can't see my doctor without my card, but that was true before the law, too.

 

It is going to pass. Too much invested at this point, and I think everyone on any conceivable side of this issue feels a lot like Mizzou now.

The hyperbole around this thing, however, is truly something to behold.

 

Sorry, Mizzou, but those of us who can't afford health insurance beg to differ with your assessment of the alleged lack of need for health care reform.

 

Ragu, leaving aside the merits of the bill (or, if I understand your point, any large-scale legislation of any kind), the Democrats PROMISED to do this to win votes. They campaigned on it. So many voters expect them to do it. If they don't, those voters, almost all Democrats, will stay home. If the only purpose of running for office is to keep holding office, why the hell should I vote for you? Because you're a swell guy/gal? Yeah, right.
At some point, the majority, any majority, runs out of excuses. If it can't pass its proposals into law, it should become the minority. The Republicans became the minority in 06 and 08 because voters decided the Republican proposals, many of which DID happen, weren't working. That's a risk the majority party has to take.

 

was there this much hand wringing when Johnson pushed through Medicare in the 60s? Don't know, I wasn't there. And if that were today, would Medicare have not gotten passed?

 

Brooklyn, although a mere teenager in the '60s, I do remember that Medicare, while considered a pretty big deal, was not a burning issue for the nation. Between civil rights and Vietnam, people didn't have much passion left over for other things.

 

And Medicare had bipartisan support. Unlike the abortion that is about to become law.

 

What do you mean? I thought health care reform died when Scott Brown was elected in a special election in Mass.?

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Are you prepared to pay $8000 - $12,000 per year for insurance?

 

Are you prepared to continue to pull numbers out of your arse?

 

How so? That is the typical range for insurance.