With “death panel” rumors abound, it far past due to have a simple explanation of what the health care reform proposal on the Hill is all about.  Enter Nick Beaudrot:

When put into this context, we can see that the nefarious public option is relatively minor in scope.  The real big reforms are the added consumer protections, coupled with employer mandates and health care exchanges.  Not to say that the public option should be dropped, because I think it would be a significant upgrade to the system, but I wouldn’t want a bill to get killed simply because it didn’t contain one.

Having said that, it becomes even more clear that all those grannies out there have nothing to fear, because there will be no change to Medicare.  That is, there’s no change anymore, now that expanding Medicare benefits to cover end-of-life counseling has been stricken from the bill, because that was obviously unacceptable.

On a much larger note, it blows my mind that a political party can be continued to be taken seriously after knowingly and maliciously lying to the American people.  In this particular case, lying to little old ladies.

These people cannot be allowed to shape policy in this country.  It’s time to boycott the GOP and completely shut them out of the legislative process.  I have no interest whatsoever in bipartisanship unless both sides are acting in good faith, and it’s clear that the GOP has no intention of that.

Republican Party, you’re dead to me.

Tags: GOP, healthcare, reform

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