Carol C: Your statement to Bobert, "The hurry is that people are dying and several months won't guarantee a better bill at all."

I assume you are aware that if the final bill is passed, the benefits won't be in effect for four more years, right? Think the Democrats can declare a moratorium on dying for four years?

I think it is possible that the Democrats themselves my defeat the bill in conference and if so, maybe there can be a greater effort to get a better bi-partisan one.

Those of you who hate the private insurance companies should shed no crocodile tears for that industry. When the stock market closed Friday, after the news that 50 votes were attainable, stock in insurance companies closed higher than ever.

DougR