[the mongoose]

Originally Posted by Sean

I support the bill because I think we have to address the cost problem. We have to quote -- bend the curve -- end quote. While this particular peice of legislation doesn't do much on that front, and I could make a good case for why it may bend the curve in the wrong direction, it creates a platform off of which further measures to reduce cost growth can be built. .

That's like saying that our new bus driver is not even going to be taking us in the right direction, but it will take us to an intersection where it could turn and we COULD go to where we need to get to.

This all trusting mentality sure didnt' turn out too well for these guys.........>>>Click<<<

Originally Posted by Sean

you're going to cover 30 odd million uninsured people and raise the richness of the insurance packages that people get, will create a floor on which something more substantial can be built. We'll have the clear locus of responsibility for cost containment.

No the fuck it won't create a stable floor or raise the "richness" of anything..........If instead of waiting in line for 11 people at a Subway restaurant there's now an estimated 46 odd people in front of you, you'd actually consider that a good thing? I'm sure that the newly overworked, under supplied, and understaffed store would be so much better off too.

Originally Posted by Sean[I

]QUESTION: You're talking about moving away from fee-for-service toward a broader definition of medicine, something like fee for care. . So is fee-for-care the proverbial building we want to build over the bulldozed health care landscape?

ANSWER: I think that could be right.[/i]

Well that's all fine and dandy unless you bring reality into the mix. You cannot ration health care like it's the buffet option at a sit down restaurant. Lobster (heart surgery) will not be on the buffet for sure. Especially since there's now a mother fucking line out the door consisting of 30 million hungry illegal immigrants ready to lap up anything that we would consider slop and object to. This completely changes the "restaurant". Evil Sam Walton would be proud though.