Pelosi’s Great Success
Pelosi celebrates the passage of a health care bill as though it were The Health Care Bill that was advertised by Obama. Without a public option, and with the spectacle of a wilting, shoddy process to enact this legislation, it is a cynical, or delusional assertion, that this is something to celebrate.
Obama was elected on a wave desiring change and, Not Bush. Obama said he would remove partisanship but had not a clue how to fulfill the slogan. I don’t think Obama has yet convinced anyone of anything — in America, or internationally. While the media has attempted to explain away Obama’s lack of conviction the pattern is apparent.
Everyone knew health care was broken — that health insurance was a 20% add-on to every payment a patient made. Obama needed to sell the idea, to convince people (of what they originally believed), and counter the “socialism” nonsense. He finally gave up as one mistake after another was made.
Pelosi decided it could be done, as she felt she knew better than the majority, and didn’t care if the product was watered down, so she discarded Obama’s quit-out, and pushed it — and succeeded! I’m glad she did, even in its truncated form; I hope the bill turns out to be a new beginning. What you really want to see is an end to health insurance for profit. The idea that government bureaucracies are worse than health insurance corporate bureaucracies is an idea that never made much sense. If government bureaucracies falter, then make them better. Corporate bureaucracies want to make money — it is actually their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders — so their efficiencies are those derived from greed. It is delusional to trust business to do it better; remember that many argued that we trust the markets to self-correct prior to the financial crash.
