Tuesday, December 25, 2007

The battle for Health Care reform

The NY Times has an update on the battles in California and Illinois and Pennsylvania to reform and expand health care for their citizens. Two points stand out. One is that John Edwards is right, the insurance companies will not walk away from a cash cow like selective health care quietly. And secondly, the form that any reform takes will itself be a major battle. We can only hope that ultimately these wise words will prevail.
Andrew L. Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, seemed to speak for many of those in attendance when he said in an interview that successful health reform would depend on “not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
Of note, in California the Republicans are once again leading the fight against the public good.

// posted by montag @ 12:41 PM
Comments:
The current congress is bought and paid for by the insurance industry. Nothing will happen until that is changed, and the only way to do that is get a new congress that is scared to death of the citizens.
# posted by Blogger basher : 1:55 PM
 

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