MB Civic

By Eugene Robinson | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…For the first time, we will enshrine the principle that all Americans deserve access to medical care regardless of their ability to pay. No longer will it be the policy and practice of our nation to ration health according to wealth. When you blow away all the smoke, that’s what this fight is about. The Senate bill lacks a public health insurance option, the House bill is burdened by gratuitous abortion restrictions and the final product of a House-Senate conference will probably have both those failings. But once the idea of universal health care is signed into law, it will be all but impossible to erase. Over time, that idea will be made into reality….”….BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/21/AR2009122102488_pf.html