From a great read today at The Treatment:
Health care reform is not solely, or even primarily, about improving health. It's also about making sure that medical expenses don't ruin individuals and families financially, whether because of a truly catastrophic event that requires intensive hospitalization or a chronic disease that demands ongoing treatment. In other words, it's not just health security that Americans lack. It's economic security. And the one thing we know health care reform will do, even in the heavily compromised version that passed the U.S. Senate, is provide a lot of economic security.
Too bad the Idaho Legislature is busily tying a noose around economic security by obstructing federal health care reform (should it ever actually happen) and gleefully dismembering even the skeleton of what once was the bare-bones Idaho government (see the Mike Moyle quote in the right sidebar).
Just one question for Idaho Republicans: Where's your plan?
Maybe you could start by getting off the phone.
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