Health-​​Care Criticism From All Sides

From the left:

Since we’re on the verge of pass­ing a totally pro-​​industry bill, AHIP which rep­re­sents the uni­ver­sally loathed for-​​profit insur­ance indus­try, is going to ground. This is the only way to greet their great vic­tory, and our tremen­dous loss.

As the recip­i­ent of tens of mil­lions of new –cus­tomers– vic­tims, AHIP and its mem­bers know full well the only way to greet this sell­out to the Amer­i­can peo­ple is a stony silence.

And from the right:

The Democ­rats are about to put in place the leg­isla­tive, reg­u­la­tory and bureau­cratic infra­struc­ture for a com­plete gov­ern­ment takeover of health care. Just read the com­ments from the sup­port­ers and you will see a com­mon theme — this is just the begin­ning.

This is how we know we’ve found a work­ing com­pro­mise — the bill pleases every­body except for the com­men­ta­tors in the wings. Very wonderful.