On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:54:00 -0600, thunder
wrote:

On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:42:17 -0500, Tom Francis wrote:


You're right and as far as it goes, it would be a boon.

Unfortunately, that requires a free market approach to keep costs
competitive and we just got a crap sandwich of a "health care" bill.

This is gonna be a diaster and the more the details are being exposed,
it's becoming apparent that it's nothing more than a Chavez style take
over of a major industry - confiscatory and restrictive.

Hopefully, 2010 will bring a reversal of this boondoogle.

For different reasons, like you, I'm not overly happy with the proposed
health care bill, but we've been trying, without success, to get health
care legislation for 60 years. Regardless, of this bill's quality, that
sacred cow has been slaughtered. Now, fine tuning, in the future, will
be considerably easier to accomplish.

You're right - it's not "slaughtered" as you say.

Unfortunately, nothing is going to be able to be "fine tuned". The
basic premise is false, the concept is totally foreign to the way
Americans think (well, the majority anyway) and there is literally
nothing we can do about it now other than repeal the entire bill and
start over again.

On the other hand, the lake is calling and I'm going fishing. :)

Save the debate for another day. :)