Evidently, the Blue Dog Democrats reached a deal on Obamacare, but nobody's happy with it. This isn't particularly surprising; from the right, the howls are that we are one step closer to a single payer system. From the left, the fury is that the deal isn't aggressive enough.
The good news is that a final vote has been postponed until the fall, which gives the opposition (those of us who like our health care) time to rally the troops against this unaffordable boondoggle. Here's a chart liberals don't want you to see about the costs of their plan:
Those who say this reality won't lead to rationing are lying to you.
As Ed Morrissey notes,
It gives the Republicans a fixed target for the next few weeks, with an ability to cite the actual legislation and pick it apart, while painting moderate Democrats as fools who haven’t bothered to read it. Having no final version of the bill would have allowed Democrats to dodge questions about it. This makes them stand on the bill for weeks without getting moved out of way. Call it political target practice, practically akin to shooting ducks in a barrel, for the GOP.
But Robert S. McCain says that the point is to simply put so much legislation on the table (card check, cap and tax, health care) that something will slip through and that's better than nothing (to the Dems). I'm pretty pessimistic that that is true and that one must focus on the most important issue first, and in my opinion, that's saving private health care. Because we all want the best treatments available to us, not just the cheap ones the government can afford. The bottom line: under Obamacare, your individual insurance policy is probably doomed.
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