On 3/23/10 4:20 PM, nom=de=plume wrote:
For the righties... which of these things do you not like?

Provisions of the health care overhaul that will take place in 2010:

90 days after enactment - Provide immediate access to high-risk pools for
people with no insurance because of pre-existing conditions.
180 days after enactment - Bar insurers from denying people coverage when
they get sick.
180 days after enactment - Bar insurers from denying coverage to children
with pre-existing conditions.
180 days after enactment - Bar insurers from imposing lifetime caps on
coverage.
180 days after enactment - Require insurers to allow people to stay on their
parents' policies until they turn 26.
this year - Provide a $250 rebade to Medicare prescription drug
beneficiaries whose initial benefits have run out.



What the "righties" don't like and what they haven't liked from the
beginning is that passage of this major league bill hands Obama and the
Democrats the most significant legislative victory in decades.

*That* was and is the basis of the GOP obstructionism.

The righties have been trying to delay and delay and delay so there
would be nothing to show for the last year and a half of effort by the
Democrats on this...that is all there is to it. What possible
credibility would the Republicans have on "fiscal responsibility" after
their budget-busting b.s. of the Bush years?