One of the reasons I haven’t written more on health care is that even the good plan that Obama campaigned on is criminally wasteful and stupid compared to any single-payer plan used by any advanced industrial nation in the world. I just can’t get fired up for this plan. But, when you tell me that even this piece of crap plan’s best components are negotiable, I am not even sure we can afford to pass it. I go from ambivalence to questioning whether or not I should join the wingnuts in flat out opposing it.
Watching Congress debate this, I get the idea that Baucus and Conrad are nothing more than heralds for a terminally greedy political culture that only exists in DC and has little relationship to what people actually believe or want.
