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Best We Can Do?
You can't please all the people all the time. There are no simple solutions. This is a compromise situation. But is giving up on millions of Americans the answer?
The Senate Finance Committee bill would achieve coverage for 94 percent of us, which is indeed a substantial improvement from the current 83 percent. And without a doubt, that 94 percent is a hard-won achievement for those crafting the bill, given the strong views and conflicting priorities in Congress, let alone the Committee.
Committee members have worked for weeks with the certain knowledge that regardless of their efforts and compromises, someone's not going to get what they want. Many of us are going to think the final package is too expensive. Others will say it didn't do enough to fix the inequities in a broken health care system. Some won't be satisfied unless health care is free to all.
I get it. It's a tough situation and they're doing their best.
But I refuse to believe that the best we can do still leaves millions and millions of Americans behind. Final legislation must get closer to the principle that led us to embark on reform in the first place: in this nation, it is unacceptable that people suffer and die because they can't afford to go to the doctor.
By
Doug Ulman
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October 16, 2009; 9:49 AM ET
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Posted by: AndyA1 | October 16, 2009 4:14 PM
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The only way we are going to get health care for all is to have real reform. The government is not discussing real reform. It is sad! Read "The Innovators Prescription" to find out what we really need.
Posted by: msrkwarner268 | October 16, 2009 3:57 PM
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"in this nation, it is unacceptable that people suffer and die because they can't afford to go to the doctor."
It is utterly unacceptable in ANY nation, but all the more so in the US, the richest nation on earth and one which [outsider's view] is so 'comfortable' to publically declare its Christian principles and yet seems so abyssmally incapable of actually living up to them!