All he got was a lousy insurance industry bailout that few can love.

[edhopper]

Sometimes, conservative writers make sense too.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121802142.html

"Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama. All he wanted for Christmas was a health-care reform bill -- and all he got was a lousy insurance industry bailout that few can love."

[midnight]

1. It's a shame.

[ananda]

2. Broken clock.. twice a day.

The truth is the truth no matter who says it.

[pissedoff01]

3. Not a bailout. It's an outright gift

Insurance companies are already making money hand over fist over American dead bodies.

[girl gone mad]

4. Just one correction:

"Lefties hate it because there's no public option and no Medicare buy-in for those 55 and over. Righties hate it because requiring that Americans buy private insurance or face penalties means taxpayers will have to hand over more of their hard-earned dollars (assuming they have a job) to the government. "

I'm pretty sure lefties hate it for the latter reason, too, except that the money is mostly going to private insurers, not the government. They can never be completely honest or it would shatter their flawed ideology.

[Laelth]

5. k&r for the truth, however depressing. n/t

Kill the bill.

Forcing people to buy insurance is no more the answer to a failed health care system than forcing people to buy houses is the solution to homelessness.

:dem:

-Laelth