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Originally Posted by finnbow
Truth be told, nobody fully understands the impacts of the health care reform bill. All laws have unintended consequences, for better or for worse. One's views of the impacts of the bill are colored either by their own vested interest or their ideology. It may be a great thing, it may suck, and it may be somewhere in between. It'll be years before we know (or think we know), but we still won't agree for the same reasons we don't agree now. Even if it appears to succeed beyond all expectations, will the GOP concede that fact?
For example, did the New Deal help stop the Great Depression or was it WWII? Did Reagan cause the fall of the Soviet Union? Was the Iraq invasion the right thing at the time? We have a better idea now than then, but we still don't agree.
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Nicely put.
In other words, I suspect that health reform may cost me more, but I don't care, so long as I see some benefit to myself and others. Some folks don't care about any of that, they just don't want to pay any more whatever the outcome. Or, put more bluntly,---they're cheapskates. The big question is; Will we see increased benefit? I don't think anyone just wants to pay more for the same ol' same ol'. (As they say here, in the Swamp.)
It seems to me that in the (recent) pre-reform debate days, healthcare was costing us more and more every year, to the tune of double percentage digits and all we ever got was less coverage, less people covered and higher premiums. Talk about being charged more for nothing, that's being charged more for less.
Have we as a society forgotten that that's what started this whole thing in the first place?
Maybe we should just go back to bartering chickens? It would only seem to fit right in with the mentality of some. How about that, Whell? What kind of coverage do you think you could get me for a half dozen yardbirds? I'll even personally gaurantee them as "salmonella free".
Dave