Healthcare’s Home Stretch | Mother Jones.
The gist from Kevin Drum is that something is better than nothing and defeat would set things back years if not decades. I add that with each attempt, from Truman to Johnson, Nixon and Clinton the goal was a little less ambitious. Where would that leave it if Obama fails? The insurance reforms alone are worth the price and shockingly overdue. Complete failure consigns perhaps tens of thousands of Americans to death for the want of health insurance over the next ten years. How many more will become disabled and unemployed or go bankrupt?
This doesn’t mean that I forgive Lieberman for doing his best to destroy it. I’d still like to see him stripped of his chairmanship and kicked in the nuts on the way out the door (see my previous post).
Update:
A TPM reader shares the same view I hold. It’s insane to throw out the baby with the bath water. We need what’s left in the bill, to say otherwise is ridiculous. We want more and should work for more, but if this is what we can get right now, so be it.
Update 2:
