This week's line of the week belongs to New York Times pundit, Gail Collins who gave the week's intense policy debate on healthcare prior to its final vote tomorrow some badly needed perspective. Personally I have mixed views about the bill as it presently stands & if I were a member of Congress today, frankly I am not sure how I would vote.
Collins however said the following & in the final analysis, I believe that she is correct.
"...If it passes, the short-term political consequences are unknowable. But in 10 years, people will look back in amazement that we once lived in a time when Americans couldn’t get health care coverage if they were sick, when insurance companies could cut off your benefits for being sick, and when run-of-the-mill serious illnesses routinely destroyed families’ financial security..."
This definitely gives the genuine fence sitters in Congress something to consider in the next 24 hours [as opposed to those just holding out for more goodies for their state].
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