Somebody Get Me a Hooker

You know, this is going to be a hell of an issue in 2010 cause honestly, what’s the point of having a 60 vote majority in the United States Senate, if you can’t produce…health care reform. You can get health insurance reform. This bill is going to cost us a lot of money and it isn’t going to do anything, if this so-called compromise is true. This compromise does nothing, except it will reform insurance. That’s a good thing to do, but they ought to strip the money out of it cause we reformed insurance like this in Vermont 15 years ago. It’s a fine thing to do, but it doesn’t insure more people

I've screamed here many times re: if you're gonna spend a ton of money anyway, you might as well pass a bill that actually WORKS. Now that it's been compromised so much and watered down, come 2010 Republicans will be able to say "gee, look at how much money we spent, and you're still not insured." As opposed to of course a Democrat being able to say "yeah, it was a ton of money, but now every American has health insurance." We let ourselves feel okay at being nickel-and-dimed under the virtue of "fiscal responsibility" - an ironic term at best since there's nothing responsible about paying for something that was set up to fail simply for political gain.

Or, as I brilliantly said HERE:

I suppose an appropriate analogy would be to get a hooker, who tells you you may pay $20 for 15 minutes or $35 for 1/2 hour. Trying to save some dough you go for the 15 minutes, but your 15 minutes comes and goes before you do. So now you've spent $20 and gotten zero satisfaction, whereas you could've spent $35 and made sure you got your nut off. One way you're fucked, and the other one you're fucked and happy.