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The health care long knives are out
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for
meaningful health care reform to pass through this congress.
There are so many moving parts in this game of three-dimensional
chess, so many special interests, so much money to be made and lost,
that only someone with the legislative skills of a Ted Kennedy--or
maybe a Tom Daschle--could have played it pitch-perfect.
Sadly, the American people seem to be forgotten in all the jockeying.
We have only our own ignorance to blame. If the majority of this
country had any idea what the average citizen takes for granted in
Europe, and for what cost, our members of congress would pass universal
health care in a heartbeat, to the light of torches waving outside the
U.S. Capitol windows.
But those of us who have some semblance of health care coverage
desperately hang onto our miserable scraps, because it's all we know.
Those who have nothing...hell, nobody listens to them, anyway.