Health Care Debate

The health care debate in the Senate is soon coming to an end one way or another, and I'm not optimistic about the final package. If the Senate does pass something, it will be so watered down that it will be nothing more than a gift to the insurance companies and will do nothing to contain costs. The already weak "public option" in the Senate version of the bill will probably not survive the filibuster threat of four so-called Democratic senators. If there is no public option, the insurance companies will have no competition, no incentive to contain costs, and a whole new pool of 45M people who are mandated by law to buy insurance from them. The process and the debate haven't made a whole lot of sense to me.

This isn't change I can believe in.