The last health care bill has made it out of committee today. Thank you, Sen. Olympia Snowe, for being willing to publicly support the idea, even if the details aren't all you would prefer.
Lots of work ahead, of course, for the different bills to all compromise and become one. And there will be hell to pay if we end up with the "co-ops" instead of a public option. But overall it is very encouraging. I am cautiously beginning to hope that we might actually achieve meaningful health care reform this year.
And not a moment too soon. Every day the Congress negotiates, debates, postpones, it delays the day when a bill will take effect. Any bill will take a few years to completely take effect, so the sooner we get started, the better.
Get to work, you people in Congress!
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