2012

Substitute a donkey and a Big Pharma lobbyist prophecy and you could have another cartoon.

It's true, neither the donkey nor the elephant are squeeky clean... yet one party is clearly more in love with the healthcare system status quo than the other.

You can also add a donkey with a Trial Lawyer and SEIU prophesy.

Hey Spence....

Who do you think will benefit most from the institution of public healthcare?
The dems will benefit from those corporate benefactors the way that dems benefit from not attacking tort reform and by adding public options.

If they simply addressed the issues that made healthcare so expensive - we'd have true reform.
Instead....the pocket-lining continues.

yet one party is clearly more in love with the healthcare system status quo than the other.

Not at all, they just want to change it in different ways. What they should be doing is going ahead and passing those areas they do agree largely on like pre-exiting conditions and such and get that passed immediately and not hold those changes up due to purely partisan hopes for items they don't currently agree on. Break the bill apart and pass what everyone likes NOW! Don't make people suffer for partisan agendas when those agreed upon bipartisan reforms could have been out yesterday.

Why has no one weighed in on the GOP bill? Leonidas says "they just want to change it in different ways." So what do you think of the GOP bill? That's the way Republicans would reform health care and they unanimously supported it. Do you love it? Why or why not?

If they simply addressed the issues that made healthcare so expensive - we'd have true reform.

And the issues are?

McCarran-Ferguson, ERISA preemption misuse, buying medicines from other countries ...

I've included my list several times, but I'd be happy to repeat it again if you didn't read it on any of my previous posts.