The opinion as to who wants what is a matter of the source one is using. Depending on the way the poll is worded Americans overwhelmingly want at minmal a Public Option and depending on the wording it is only the percentage that varies.
Apart from the noise makers whoring for headlines were millions of Americans that took their support to legislators singly, rationally, and without noise or confrontation. Unlike the tea party group with the guy with a gun tied to his leg dancing about like a rodeo clown, they got no coverage. Something radical does need to be done or we will simply have to start all over again.
It is interesting that Bush's partial privitization of Medicare with The Prescription Drug Bill is estimated to cost more than either the House or Senate proposal for Health Care now pending.
"Medicare Drug Benefit May Cost $1.2 Trillion
Estimate Dwarfs Bush's Original Price Tag
By Ceci Connolly and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, February 9, 2005; Page A01
The White House released budget figures yesterday indicating that the new Medicare prescription drug benefit will cost more than $1.2 trillion in the coming decade, a much higher price tag than President Bush suggested when he narrowly won passage of the law in late 2003.
The projections represent the most complete picture to date of how much the program will cost after it begins next year. The expense of the new drug benefit has been a source of much controversy since the day Congress approved it, with Democrats and some Republicans complaining that the White House has consistently low-balled the expected cost to the government."
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view linkThe same people crying now were not only pretty quiet than but many supported it.
