Anyway, while this may be good news I fear that it may be a diversion from what will remain in HR 3200. The President said over the weekend that the public option for insurance coverage was "just a sliver" of the overall proposal.
One Democrat, however thinks that this is the beginning of the end for the health insurance reform bill - “It would be very, very difficult, to support a bill that lacked a public health insurance option," Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, “because, without the public option, we’ll have the same number of people uninsured. If the insurance companies wanted to insure these people now, they’d be insured."
Meanwhile the word is coming down the pike that the House is again pushing back the voting date to late September. I imagine that they are doing this in hopes that America's attention span will time-out and then they can get some "real work" done.
There is at least one person who sort of agrees with me. Former Congressman and House Majority Leader, Dick Armey, is making an astute prediction that “In September or October there will be a hyped up outbreak of the swine flu which they’ll say is as bad as the bubonic plague to scare the bed-wetters to vote for healthcare reform. That is the only way they can push something on to the American people that the American people don’t want.”
May it not be so!
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