(Community Matters) message to my President: please pass healthcare at all costs. If it takes reconciliation to get it through the Senate, so be it. I don’t care about D majority or presidential reelection as much as finally insuring 30mm, 40mm Americans + excluding preexisting conditions + initiating cost containments + increasing Amer mfg competitiveness + portability
Obviously, I don’t think it would cost D or POTUS reelection but if so, so be it. LBJ knew signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 lost the south for Ds for a generation but it was the most important civil progress of our generation. So will be healthcare – both from civil and economic perspectives. Combined with financial services, it (they) consume too much of our GDP
And, absolutely, each bill currently passed is grossly imperfect – and extraordinarily better than what we have today. We will fix the problems going forward. Many are predicting our margins in each house of Congress will narrow in Nov (I’m not yet signed on to this assumption) and we cannot afford delays any further into the election cycle.
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Absolutely. This should be the most important item on the White House’s agenda, and the agenda of the Congressional leadership. I am already disappointed in everyone involved, and if nothing passes the last year will go down as a very sad chapter in American history.