Thank you for your reasoned and well spoken reply. As a health care analyst of sorts, though, let me point out that if the members of your (or any) union think that Scott Brown can "save" their health plans, they're fooling themselves. Health care costs, as a proportion of GDP, are rising faster than any other cost. IIRC, if unchecked, we will be paying 25 cents of every dollar in the US on health care by something like 2050 (might be sooner; definitely not later). That's 25 cents which will no longer be available to buy food, pay rent or mortgage, or do anything else.
Health reform is important because it is the only way to change that. Is the bill now in Congress the best possible bill? Oh, hell no. But it is a start. The solution is not to block it; it is to fix it. The alternative is to wait for a worse bill to come along, under even more fiscal pressure, without even the amount of public discussion we've had thus far.
(Full disclosure: I volunteer for the Martha Coakley campaign. I'm not disinterested, but this is also what I would say even if I were not volunteering).
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Health reform is important because it is the only way to change that. Is the bill now in Congress the best possible bill? Oh, hell no. But it is a start. The solution is not to block it; it is to fix it. The alternative is to wait for a worse bill to come along, under even more fiscal pressure, without even the amount of public discussion we've had thus far.
(Full disclosure: I volunteer for the Martha Coakley campaign. I'm not disinterested, but this is also what I would say even if I were not volunteering).