<div>While you're waiting ambivalently, Ron, would it be safe to say that you have some sort of health care plan of your own?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Ron Szoke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r-szoke@illinois.edu">r-szoke@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">There is no "Obamacare" bill, only one emerging from the stew of conflicting<br>agendas in congress. I respect the opinion of some of those who oppose it,<br>
but am not wholly convinced by their rhetoric -- which in some cases consists<br>merely of sneers, insults, accusations & prophecies of doom.<br><br>I grant that the bill seems radically flawed & unsatisfactory as it stands, but I<br>
support its passage in the (possibly unrealistic) hope that it can be changed to<br>something more like single-payer in the near future -- perhaps a year or two.<br>Either way, one's judgment rests on speculation about what will happen in the<br>
future. Those closest to the immediate situation -- CCHCC, CBHC, the nuns,<br>etc. -- seem overwhelmingly to support it. Those who predict that it will<br>result in ultimate disaster are faking & bluffing -- standard fare on this list, to<br>
be sure.<br><br>What disappoints me is the confluence of the glib & the gullible in opposing it,<br>& the notable lack of substance in their arguments.<br><br>Ambivalently,<br><font color="#888888"><br>-- Ron<br></font></blockquote>
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