Seconding, selise @70

DW

hmm.

can you connect j.j’s behavior with your previous column on rockefeller owing obama?

this might mean there has been a sea change re health insurance.

Anyone wonder why companies get tax-breaks for provided health insurance, but individuals don’t get the same?

…Wouldn’t it be swell if anyone availing themselves of COBRA would get the same tax deductibility as businesses gets for providing the benefits…?

” we should at least put a 100% tax on lobbying expenses by for-profits if they spend over a certain percentage”

Let’s just make them pay the SAME amount of extra taxes as they spend lobbying. That they get tax breaks for advertising is sickening enough! So much for decrying welfare.

(Since we ALL hopefully believe they should be denied constitutional “rights”).

If Obama had spent a few good months at the beginning developing a list of the biggest problems with our current system, from cost, to pre-existing conditions, to lose-it-when-you-lose-your-job and so on, THEN he would have created a framework against which to measure all the “solutions.”

But no. Supersmart [self-identified] Rahm thought it would be SO much better to hole up behind closed doors with the Big Donors [and Big Problem-creators], the drug and insurance industries, and fashion a “solution” that didn’t infringe on their goodies. I.e., no solution at all.

Thus we’ve got this mushy “well, health care sucks and there are problems” coupled with a “I dunno exactly what our solution will be, but you Dems should get out there and support it [and the President]” kabuki.

This is no way to run a country.