Reply #7: Irrelevant standard. Not to mention, this is not the bill Brown would have written a year ago. [View All]

[No Elephants]

It's a bill written after a year of deals, health imsurance and big health industry written bills, etc.

"here will be no other chances for reform for another 12 years."

If you're right, all the more disgrace that the Democrats mangled this the entire year they had sixty in the Senate Caucus.

Pre-existing conditions a good start? Sure, like a jobs bill that create jobs at the cost to taxpayers of $400,000 per job. It would have been a better start if the insurers were not allowed to increase rates on those with pre-existing conditions.

BTW, I wonder if Franken's provision or the pre-existing conditions provision can pass the test of the Byrd Rule. If not, they cannot make it through reconciliaton. So, let's not count those chickens just yet.

If you were a health insurer and saw your customer base aging into Medicare, you'd party over the mandate. That's why so many insurers contributed to Coakley's campaign, not Brown's.