RE: How Republicans beat health reform
This is both a far-fetched analysis and also tragically premature. The gravest mistake Republicans can make is choosing to make Health Care Reform about "defeating Obama." Defeating Health Care reform is like defeating America to win a political victory. The American people may be a few cards short of a Royal Flush, but they are not that mentally disconnected. It is their pocket books and loved ones who suffer, and Corporate America that grins to the bank.
This is not a political issue -- it is a moral and economic imperative, just as alternative fuels and energy are also instruments of future economic prosperity. I have had superb health insurance in my past and have been totally devastated by absurd and impossible health care in recent years. I am far from the only one. The billions of dollars lost in family suffering and tragedy are never the issue to Republicans, only the dollars to be made by Doctors, Insurance Companies and related health delivery systems. They forget that all those Billions are drained like blood from the pockets of what were once independent and well off Americans -- drained dry and likely unable to work full time, reduced to desperation and poverty by accident, twist of fate, or genetic dice roll.
Before any Conservative Loyalists get too smug, they should be mindful that the same twists of fate may visit them, and mere political loyalty will not pay the medical bills or salvage a mortgage when hundreds of thousands of dollars must pay those medical costs.
Clearly, a lot of Republicans need medical care and surgery -- heart transplants to be exact...to replace that cold black thing with something that is a living, caring and functioning heart.
Zenbob
