Originally Posted by bhutocracy

It'll get passed but it's probably the single most self defeating thing i've ever seen a party put in a bill. With the public option or more easily, a medicare buy in pushed through in tandem with the mandate in a simple easy to sell bill from the start it would at least have been palatable.. Nice one guys, ensure no real insurance reform will happen that would threaten the private insurance companies and double-down on the present system by forcing people to buy expensive insurance they don't want.. You couldn't design a better situation to lose votes this side of a pedophilia scandal. I understand doing what the corporate donors want, but electoral suicide shouldn't have been on the bargaining table.