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BTW, the latest news on the health care bill is that the Congressional Budget Office (i.e., neutral group, not siding with Democrats or Republicans) did an analysis of the current bill. Their conclusion was:
"The CBO estimated it would extend coverage to 32 million additional people. It also extends Medicare’s solvency by at least 9 years and reduces the rate of its growth by 1.4 percent.
Comprehensive health care reform will cost the federal government $940 billion over a ten-year period, but will increase revenue and cut other costs by a greater amount, leading to a reduction of $130 billion in the federal deficit over the same period.
It will cut the deficit by $1.2 trillion over the next ten years."
Wait what? $1.2 trillion? Can someone point me to the last time Republicans put forward a bill that would cut the deficit by $1.2 trillion? Or for that matter, any president of either party?
Unless you can come up with a reason why the CBO's analysis is drastically wrong, then I think you have to admit there are at least some good aspects to this bill. Even if you disagree that we should change how we regulate the insurance industry, how can you be against the deficit reduction aspect?