Let us make no mistake about it. The only good things in the healthcare bill have been viciously buried alive in a shallow grave. Single-Payer was the real solution that would have guaranteed fair, across the board coverage for all Americans. It met a slow, and tortured death buried alive. The Public Option was then our only hope to keep insurers honest, and it met with a long, torturous death buried alive with malice while the American people virtually begged for it. The employer mandate, like single-payer appears to have been buried alive. Yes, everything good that could have come from reform seems to be somewhere near Jimmy Hoffa, dead and buried never to be found.
You know, it seems as if the one campaign promise that Obama made, to get past partisanship and unify the country is the only one so far he has kept. Think of it, for the first time in my life and his life as a Senator I agree with Mitch McConnell. Progressives are now agreeing with the tea-baggers and Howard Dean is agreeing with John McCain. Even Keith Olberman, televised champion of the Progressive point of view now agrees with the Republicans about the need to kill the healthcare bill in the Senate.
With all to be disgusted about in this healthcare debate I must again give kudos to Howard Dean. Despite his unearned reputation as a "looney liberal" Howard Dean is one person in either party that has been making a lot of sense in the last several years. As a Doctor he has dealt with the system and knows a lot about it. He has never been afraid to let his opinions be known either.
Usually I put a diary up on Sunday with a roundup of the weeks news. Sorry, I got busy last weekend and forgot. There was so much going on this week, I had to put one up this time around. Follow after the fold for some of the weeks news and do not refrain from adding your stories in the comments!!
