Free advice to the Obama administration: the various health care bills wending their way through the House and Senate will ultimately see the floor, and just getting that done is a lot of work. But, like Steve Jobs, you need that “oh, one more thing.”
We need one other bill passed immediately. Just a little one. It can be about one sentence long: should [healthcare reform] remain unsigned into law by the President of these United States on December 31, 2009, all healthcare funding and provisioning for the members of the House and Senate are null and void. Members of said organizations are furthermore ineligible for Medicare for as long as they may serve in the government.
Seems like we might see some more, uh, focused and credible debate with that particular Sword of Damocles hanging. Just saying.
Lemkin 