While the attention of the media and much of the nation has been focused on killers in Texas and Florida, House dems are fairly quietly working towards a vote on Pelosi's 2000-page monster of a health care bill, which includes the public option. Looks like the dems are going to try to ram it through the house, with barely enough votes for passage, sometime this weekend (although there is some talk a vote might slip until early next week). Further, it looks like the monster will be going through changes, additions and deletions right up until the time they vote on it this weekend, meaning that none of us ever get to see the final bill before it's voted on (obviously, Pelosi has broken her 72-hour pledge, at least as I understood that pledge). Oh well, they do still have to try to ram-rod something through the Senate too, and that may be a little tougher. Regardless, as I've said before, these are Scary Days. I'm convinced that any bill with a public option will eventually result in a single payer system, i.e. total government control of the health insurance field. If the thought of that does not scare the hell out of you, then there's little that I can do to help you.
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