Surveying last week, William Shakespeare offers these blog-servations:
"Zounds! We were never so bethumped with words" (King John), which continue to flood the airwaves even after final passage of the health care bill. Quite apt, since the bill itself became a collection of "paper bullets of the mind," as Benedict says in Much Ado About Nothing.
Yet this is much ado about something - a bill of more than 2,000 pages, with sundry amendments of up to 383 pages. Both the legislation and its process reflect Macbeth's quip: "Confusion hath made his masterpiece."
Nonetheless, the votes constituted a big win for the Obama Administration and its backers, who reacted with near-euphoria: "O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful, and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping!" (As You Like It).
Few Republicans said so, but at least some recognized the Congressional passage as a defeat. They could console colleagues: "Be cheerful. Wipe thine tears. Some falls are means the happier to arise." (Cymbeline).
Whether Republican fortunes will arise depends on how they perform on the political stage after the Congressional recess. Thus far, their words satisfy their backers. Yet many independents listen to them on incendiary cable TV talk radio shows and feel, "You cram these words into mine ears, against the stomach of my sense" (The Tempest).
I think one of the reasons Congress wants them there, besides demonizing them, is to find out what was in the bill that no one even read. Like how did these companies find out the downside that they all missed.
"What young egg, thou frye of treachery..?"
the bill through the media like it was a hand puppet.
Your right, I checked the bill too a while back, average of nine words per line and
doubled spaced.
Republicans, tell me how many pages does it take to make a Health Care Reform Bill?
Joanne
Democrats, tell me how many pages does it take to get a Health Care Reform Bill correct?
"I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'."
http://whitecollargreenspace.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAB4wy_eWWw
How do we explain to our children that we tried for 100 years to get universal health care and the bill signed by President Obama on 3/23/10 still leaves 15 to 25 million without health insurance. In America money rules. We have stooped so low that we can spend billion$ to keep financial and manufacturing corporations and foreign countries alive but we cannot do the same or our friends, neighbors, and relatives.
Here is a proposal that will save the Federal government close to $50 billion per year enough to pay for the public option with only an executive order. Most office space is very expensive yet white collar workers only use it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. This amounts to only 30% efficiency which is completely unacceptable in today's economic and ecological environment. We can no longer afford to let all white-collar workers that still have jobs work banker's hours when we can work two shifts per day in government and private industry and cut our overhead costs in half. This simple paradigm shifts solves three problems: It jumpstarts economy and fights poverty, cuts pollution, reduces budget deficits. It is simple based on sound economic principles, will save money instead of adding to the deficit and would only require an executive order.
Employers could optout of paying for or being involved with health care which employees would receive for free from the Public Option.
Public Option users would never have to pay another insurance premium, medical service co pay fee, or any prescription costs and everyone who wants it could have it no restrictions.
An amendment to the new bill that would add a Free Public Option, run by the government, which eliminates insurance companies and uses sales taxes to pay for care which would then be delivered free from government hospitals, could produce the drastic cost savings which will be required to save us from the horrific costs of the new bill and existing mandated programs.
The easiest way to create a true Public Option, and the only way to cut costs, is not to use the Medicare model, which still brings the private provider high cost baggage with it, but instead to use the VA’s model of government staffed hospitals, and to use sales tax funding instead of insurance, to create a new stand alone system.
Medicare and Medicaid could easily be salvaged without bankrupting the federal government by using a Public Option system to deliver all care and medications to all recipients totally free and at a fraction of government’s current costs now devoured by private systems.
http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2010/03/rise-of-machine-hypocrisy.html
We will not build upon Bush league ideology.
Mr Adelman, I believe that we all know how Republicans will perform after returning from the Congressional recess. Republicans have made it quite clear that obstruction (along with a good dose of slash and burn) is their only option. They have painted themselves into this corner, and now they have no alternative but to hope that it's a winning strategy. With broad strokes, the Republicans have painted the president from everything to communist to a racist, to questioning his citizenship to arguing that he wants to pull the plug on everyone's granny. Even if Republicans wanted to move to the center to appeal to independents, doing so would alienate their base. How could they possibly expain to the teabaggers that suddenly it would be a good thing to work with a president that they have maligned for two years? FOX, along with the bombastic Limbaugh and Beck would have none of it. In either direction, that way madness lies.
No, I will weep no more. In such a night
To shut me out? Pour on; I will endure.
In such a night as this? O Regan, Goneril!
Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all—
O, that way madness lies; let me shun that;
No more of that.
King Lear Act 3, scene 4