House Democrats, in conjunction with the White House, have given the GOP until September to play ball on real bipartisan healthcare reform or have Democratic reform rammed down their throats by budget reconciliation mechanisms.
On the one hand, real national healthcare reform is too serious to get mucked too much over politics, rather than true ideological issues. (That said, the GOP ought to look at Britain’s Conservatives; that party wants to expand Britain’s NHS.)
On the second hand, given that Obama, via Geithner, basically lied about his plans to clean up Wall Street, and wanted to make vets pay for more of their own healthcare after campaigning about BushCo callousness to vets, who says that any national healthcare ideas from Obama will be real reform? (At least we won’t — I hope — have Tom Daschle helming the legislation, trying to help his healthcare industry buddies.)
On the third hand, top Senate Dems like Robert Byrd have indicated in the past their coolness to the budget reconciliation route, and wee conspicuously missing from this press release, I mean, news story.
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