Repugs lose future health care talking point

[Spike89]

Although I'm pleased we got something, I think like most people, we need to continue the fight and get what we really want, single payer, government-sponsored health care for everyone. Some people are saying this was it, that we won't dare fix or even think about revisiting HCR for another generation. I don't believe that for a second. We've now shown it can be done. More importantly, Repugs are not going to be able to throw out the tired "we have the best health care system in the world" canard. They will have to agree to working to "fix" the law, but there is no way the public is going to accept them making anything but progressive changes.

Any work that gets done on HCR can only be good, and by making such a fuss about how "Obamacare" has/will ruin everything, the Repugs really don't have the option of ignoring it any more. It isn't a slam dunk, but I see the path to improving and strengthening the law happening in years, not generations.

[Oregone]

1. "Any work that gets done on HCR can only be good"

This reform is built upon a foundation of capitalistic philosophy, whereas profits and excess are deemed permissible for the greater good, and everyone should be responsible to pay such a premium for private parties to run the industry.

With this lobby empowered and entrenched, do you honestly believe that *any* work on HCR "can only be good"? It seems naive.

[Spike89]

2. OK, maybe not impossible, just unlikely

I don't see constructive criticism that has a chance of making the current law worse being offered. The repugs are all screaming that it is armageddon. Almost all the energy for moving forward is coming from the left. Sure, things can change, but right now there seems to be many more people in favor of taking it farther (at least to a public option) than scrapping it entirely.

[Oregone]

3. "Almost all the energy for moving forward is coming from the left"

There is no energy whatsoever from the left. The "left" folded to an old rejected Republican idea, and helped pass it into law. This isn't a leftist reform (much the opposite) and the voices on the left have been effectively silenced in its passage.