The GOP long-term path forward is clear.  And that is to repeal what mandatory coverage at ER's there is and to slowly get away from other publicly funded coverage there is, be it current subsidies or Medicare & Medicaid.

This bill is better than the bill in 1993/94 (although not by a lot, but it is), and to kill it would kill any hope of getting the Public Option in the future - like it did then.  

If this would've passed 16 years ago, we could've ran on the Public Option as a singular issue.  Now, it gets lumped in with everything else from the massive 1994 bill.  It's not hard to see what will happen next time since we've been through this before.

I understand the frustration, especially among those who don't grasp the history of how to use politics to achieve policy, but people who are for the public option and for killing this bill are just cutting off their nose to spite their face at this point.

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by HistoryByDay on 03/05/2010 09:34:19 PM EST

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