Policy merits aside, it’ll be a truly bizarre irony if health reform fails at the bitter end because Ted Kennedy died a few months too soon.
Policy merits aside, it’ll be a truly bizarre irony if health reform fails at the bitter end because Ted Kennedy died a few months too soon.
“…because Ted Kennedy died a few months too soon.”
Indeed.
Or, alternatively, because [understandably enough ] neither his ex-congressman Nephew, nor his namesake Son, nor his grieving Widow, could see their way clear to running — so soon, too soon — to Replace him.
“I don’t think there’s any point in being Irish if you don’t know that the world is going to break your heart eventually.” ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan; RIP
I think that it is ironic that the one state with a healthcare system most like the one the Dems are trying to impose on America has clearly rejected the Democratic efforts to do so.
Except, gahrie, that said healthcare system is quite popular in Massachusetts, supported by not just a majority of the population, but by your new hero, Senator-elect Scott Brown!
If anything, it’s more ironic than you realize, but for a different reason. One of Brown’s stated reasons for opposing ObamaCare is, essentially, that it won’t do anything for Massachusetts, because Massachusetts already has it, so why help the other 49 states jump on the bandwagon? He doesn’t oppose it because his state’s experience convinces him it’s bad — on the contrary, his state’s experience is good, and for that very reason, he sees no need (from a purely Massachusetts-centric perspective) to change the status quo.
That’s certainly ironic — the success of an ObamaCare-like plan helping to potentially kill ObamaCare — but how it’s a repudiation of the concept of health-care reform, as you seem to believe, escapes me.
Whatever Brown’s statements…the polls show that a big majority of Brown’s supporters were actively seeking to derail Obamacare with their vote.
I’m happy that the people of Mass. are happy with their healthcare (even if they can’t pay for it much longer) and think they should be allowed to keep it. I think healthcare should be handled at the state level. Texas for instance decided to go the way of tort reform, and they are very happy with their results.
People forget that our nation was founded as a group of states, not a single federal entity. The states created the federal government, not the other way around. In most matters, the states should be dominant.
http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/blog/lry285648945.html
http://betsyspage.blogspot.com/2010/01/read-between-lines-here.html
gahrie: you win our impromptu Massachusetts Prediction contest. 🙂 You virtually Nailed it. My figures were Off, in Brown’s favor. Not that his Winning by Less is any comfort to me. ;>
Venerable Elder Loy – I trust that the restoration of at least some of the “checks and balances” is of comfort to you … (grin) …