Monday, March 22, 2010
Rube Goldberg Would Be Proud
The L.A. Times explains the nuts and bolts of healthcare reform and how it will affect you. As I said in my last post, it's a mishmash of provisions no ordinary person would ever dream up, and few ordinary persons can see any sense to. If you are poor or unemployed, and single - you are still screwed under this plan, basically, as I see it.
Sigh. But as I also said - after a century of trying, it's a start.
Honk to Inverse Square for the illustration.
Update: President Obama's remarks last night after the House vote:
Bonus: Charts from the LAT and the NYT show how the plan will affect you.
4 comments:
I couldn't find the bits about baby killing.
Um, that part's probably printed with invisible ink.
It is a start. A far cry from ideal and definitely not an exercise in simplicity. But I'm glad for Obama that it passed because a defeat would have been worse than the half-assed health care bill.
They have a hell of a lot of work to do to make this work. I'm cautiously hopeful.
Then again, it's Washington... but it's the only government we have.
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