Maybe We SHOULD Start Over on Health Care...And Do It Right
The Republicans' latest tactic for trying to derail real health insurance reform is to say we should "start over." I'm starting to think they're right, but not in the same way or for the same reasons they claim. Since the GOP has made it abundantly clear they will not provide one iota of support for any health insurance reform bill, let's go back to the drawing board and draw this one up the way it should have been done in the first place. Medicare for everyone. Single-player plan. Private insurance for supplemental coverage only and that only for a transition period. Call it socialized medicine. Who cares what you call it since you won't support it regardless of label? Public option is bad? Cool. Make it public mandatory. Let the GOP go on record as opposing extending the most popular government program in history to everyone (including them and their families, by the way; no more special coverage for Congress) and see how many seats they end up with at the mid-term table. Enough is enough. These Republican scoundrels are voting for their own pocketbooks, not their constituents' best interests. Make that clear and obvious and then work to get every single one of them tossed out on his keester.
