yes.

you are the only one in the history of teh internets to see this.

1) By the time they get all the arguing done and pass a bill, they will give federal subsidies to the Insurance Companies without any price controls or controls over denial of coverage.

2) The Insurance Companies will continue business as usual, raising rates on customers, denying care and so on AND get the monetary assistance from the government, AND the people will have no options, no alternatives.

3) People will now be forced by law to buy from these companies of face fines and even jail time if they do not comply.

4) Everyone will take credit for “reforming health care” when in fact they will have created an almost irreversible disaster for the consumer and a major boon for the insurance corporations.

So in the end, the corporations WIN, the Public loses and continues to loose.

The real problem here is that corporations and special interest groups are allowed to lobby in Congress. What are the chances of putting THAT practice out? It is akin to bribery.

I don’t have millions of dollars to give my senator to ensure he will look out for my interests! But apparently, that is what it takes.

I predict health care will be a disaster, not because of repubs or dems, but because once again, corporations manipulate the system in their favor.

They’ve done it for years and nothing is in place to stop them doing it now, or ever in the future.

The real threat to American Society is from corporations and board rooms, not “right, left and moderate”. But they and the media get everyone up in arms over “repub” “dems” and right, left, liberal conservative as a major distraction. While we are busy screaming at each other, they are wheeling and dealing behind closed doors and taking us for fools.

This is how democracy will end. Corporate Oligarchy will take over the democratic system. We will still have the freedom to pay, and pay, and pay.

The government will NOT protect the people. It will protect the corporations. Wars will make money for them, so we will have plenty of wars. No need to worry about nukes, that would put them out of business, so we’ll instead have little wars that cost a fortune and pay private contractors huge sums of money, ’cause war is good for business.

But we won’t care because the phara companies will sell us so many mind numbing pills on TV that we’ll be in a permanent haze, and paying for it when our insurance refuses to, on top of it all!

Am I the only one who sees this?

Does the emperor have any clothes?

not to mention, that all of this nonsense is just to get it out of the dem caucus. they still want republican votes, and it seems like a trigger is the only way to do that.

democrats are simply not good enough at politics to win battles like this, if they were, we wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place. they would have put single payer on the table, and compromised on a real national public option and we’d move on to the next issue.