And America. America would certainly be winning too if that happened.
Friggin' cynical partisans, can't even see past whose ass is in what seat...
The two parties will not work together on health care because, first of all, it's a useful political football and, secondly, they have different results in mind. I don't believe that any compromise the two parties may reach will result in a better health plan than Obamacare was. After all, Obamacare WAS the compromise, after all, from a time when the left had the political pimp hand. Now that the right feels it holds the controls, any compromise they allow will be a ****ty one for most people. The left will perpetually attempt to make the program better for the poor and middle class, at the expense of the rich, and the right will do as it always does and protect the moneyed interests from socialism, in any form.
Now, that's not to say that Obamacare was not very flawed but it was always viewed, especially by Obama, as a starting point that would, one day, evolve into the kind of health care program that much of the rest of the free world already enjoys. The flaw in Obama's plan is, of course, that he allowed the right to insist that American greed remain a dominant part of our health care. The flaw in the conservative thinking is that there is nothing, no matter how vital to the health and happiness of our people, that they would not gladly corrupt with the pursuit of money. The people have, thus, become reliant on greed to deliver them from illness and that will NEVER work.
Americans need to ask themselves if there is ANY principle above profit. If not, then we don't deserve health or happiness as we've established that they are secondary concerns. If there IS a principle for any Americans that transcends greed it is, apparently, supported by so few of us that even a fat, orange douche can deny its existence and nobody complains.
