I must admit I had gone over to the side of those who were saying that the Dems should scale back on health care and just get something passed however minimal. I was mad at the president for having squandered his public mandate for change; fiddling around trying to woo the Grassley's and the Snowe's; eschewing the public option; forgetting that his party was the majority party so go full bore and dare the Republicans to filibuster.
But I guess he knew what he was doing. Just like he did in the campaign when a lot of us had given him up for dead. The guy knows how to close a deal.
What an achievement. Thousands more folks will have health care. Limits have been placed on how much gouging the insurance companies will be allowed to engage in. And I predict that the public will come to like what Congress has done, and three major social programs -- Social Security, Medicare, Health Reform -- will have been passed over strenuous Republican opposition.
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