Ditto to Sadly No

By Dave Anderson:

I was about to write a long post on my grudging support for healthcare reform, but Sadly No encapsulated my thoughts in this wonderful graphic:

It is a significant but insufficient improvement over the status quo, and it is a fail compared to progressive aspirational goals, but it is the best whack that can be taken as this problem for the next fifteen years. 

Comments

[how sucky is that]

...but it is the best whack that can be taken as this problem for the next fifteen years.

and that about sums up why the usa sucks so bad(ly) and is heading straight down the shitter.

a country completely captured by the people on wall street. completely.

all done in by greed.

[Ian Welsh]

I'm afraid I'm on the side that says it is worse than the status quo. The excise tax will steadily degrade coverage since it isn't indexed, and the mandate with sufficient subsidies will not provide insurance, but only forced customers to insurance companies who cannot afford to use their insurance and in many marginal cases will be driven into bankruptcy.

We'll see how it plays out, but I'm pretty confident on this one.

[Toe]

Congratulations anyway. It is a beginning. The 'small undeveloped' countries screwed up the Big Players at Copenhagen eh. So I see this as a plus for Americans, no matter where it starts. Keep on!