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Comedy Central

It has been decades since Medicare, a sort-of single payer health insurance, was passed and set up. I don't care how behind the times you are. You MUST what it is and realize it works. It is not perfect, but it works.

It has been way more than a decade since Clinton slammed that thicker than the fifth Harry Potter book universal health care bill in Congress' lap. I know it is dry reading, but you got your example of what universal healthcare looks like.

It has been years since people like the WHO took a look at the US health care system and laughed. Really, how can being below Cuba and a bunch of places third world countries not be embarrassing?

There is still a fifth health care bill being drawn up and I expect it to be just as thick. I doubt that it will finish any time soon. They still haven't voted on ONE of them yet. It will take about late September before the House picks one to send to the Senate.

Then, judging by the speed of how the economic recovery plan was sent to Obama's desk, it will be somewhere around November and December before Obama can sign it....

Before everything gets really nasty. 2010 is a election year, in case some of you forgot. You think you see crazy now? And if what happened during the Clinton administration happens again, we will not have enough votes for the public option in later years. 

And even if he signs it right now, the CBO had graded one of them and discovered that it will take (surprise, surprise) several years to achieve "universal healthcare".

At the same time, Obama is doing some really nasty things to please you right wing nuts and making us really angry AND communicating with republican congressmen more than Bush did. At the same time, these right wing mobs are pushing themselves closer and closer into homocidal rage.

Obama is not going to fast.





He is already pushing it.

So....

To all ya people bitchin that he is going too fast....get a watch.