[Peace-discuss] What hath got rot?

[C. G. Estabrook]

"...suppose Obama and House Democrats had put forward a tough, 
progressive plan, centered on a government-underwritten 'single payer' 
model and then challenged the Republicans to come at them, forcing them 
to go through the arduous exercise of actual filibusters, item by item. 
The whole terms of the debate would have been different...

"The struggle commenced last June has produced, by way of health 
insurance reform, a Republican bill – mostly bad, with a couple of 
positive features. It’s certainly not reform of health care. Its decent 
provisions could have been passed easily early last year. It could all 
have been different..."

 From <http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn03262010.html>

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