I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THE HEALTH BILLS PASSED IN THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE WILL HELP AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feel free to enlighten me, because I haven't been following it with the utmost closeness. I'm going by the whole "tax me now for something that will start in four years" approach.
To be honest, there are a number of really interesting facets of the Senate bill that could cut costs if people get creative (or so say economists - I'm no expert), but there's not much incentive. Without a public option (which I didn't support in the first place) really the only thing the Senate bill is guaranteed to do is throw more money at a broken system. More people will get coverage, which is great, but we'll all have to pay for it. Health care already takes up at least 17% of GDP, as opposed to defense, which is more like 5%, and that's only going to go up if the Senate bill becomes law, which is truly scary. That said, both the House and Senate bills are monumentally unpopular according to all the polls I've read, so Democrats really aren't doing themselves much of a favor - many analysts believe that isolating independents (check out the results of the 2009 national and statewide elections) by passing health care reform as it's currently envisioned would actually be more damaging (politically speaking) than scrapping the whole thing.
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