President Barack Obama’s drive to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system may be back on track thanks to Senate efforts to cut the price tag to $1 trillion, but a bipartisan deal on the sweeping proposal still is far from certain.
Obama wants changes that rein in the escalating costs of healthcare in the United States and bring insurance to most of the 46 million Americans who currently lack it.
He also wants a bill that the Democrats who control Congress and the Republican minority can support to give a bipartisan stamp of approval to his top legislative priority.
the Dems have big problems – even Mass.Gov. Patrick and liberal Globe Columnist Joan Vennochi are sounding the alarm bells:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/06/28/the_forbidding_arithmetic_of_healthcare_reform/
How can one man do so much harm in such a short time?
2, Government is kind of like a baby. It has a large appetite at one end and irresponsibility at the other.