On 10/26/09 9:36 PM, Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:09:20 -0400, H the K
wrote:



If some few red states want to opt out, that'll be the utter end of the
GOP in those states.

Yep. Good Dem play.
If they really have the balls to get it.
Ain't done yet.
What's important to a lot of people is job mobility.
Me for instance.
Since we can't ensure that either one of us can get a job that offers
a health care policy, the wife stays where she is.
Might convince her to move to Florida with a new insurance regime.
Though I must say there are other reasons for staying put, including
family, seasons, and plain old inertia.
She says a number of people at her work - the ones that don't use the
ER for health care - are there only for the health policy.
Job market and wages might undergo quite a bit of change.
Could invigorate the economy.
But then maybe Florida will opt out.
Their choice, given state rights and all.
hehe.

--Vic


There are a lot of Americans who are trapped in their jobs by the
economy and by the vagaries of obtaining health insurance at a new job.

If Reid and Pelosi pull off a decent health care/insurance reform bill
with no votes from the GOP, that party will be even further up the creek
than it is now. It also seems possible that our creaky economy is really
beginning to make a turn for the better. The GOP can only succeed in the
face of failure. If there isn't failure, and if the GOP is seen to have
virtually nothing to do with the recovery, it should be interesting
politically.