TIA: You offer as proof of the seriousness of your argument, Paul Krugman? That is as ludicrous as me providing you Rush Limbaugh as my voucher!

The GOP hasn't really been invited to the "table" to try to find a reasonable compromise plan for overhauling health care. The Democrats won big in the 2008 election and are acting as stupidly as did the GOP when they replaced the Democrats in both houses of Congress in the mid-1990's. GOP members have offered suggestions for improvement of the current system: allowing citizens to purchase insurance across state lines which would create greater competition among the insurance companies is one of them, but the Democrats wouldn't hear of it. Tort reform? Perish the thought. Fix Medicare problems and stop the waste in that program and Medicaid before completely turning the current system upside down, but no, the Democrats wouldn't listen.

So now they are going to be passing a Bill with perhaps one Republican voting with them. They will tout it as a bi-partisan bill because Senator Snow, who really is a Democrat anyway, voted with them. And will health care be made available to ALL Americans as a result of this Bill? Nope, it won't.

DougR