Health Care Reform, DOA

I just want to say that "meaningful health care reform" is DOA. We might just as well save some of the taxpayer's money and close down ALL committee hearings immediately.

The simple fact of the matter is there's no way ANYTHING about health care in this country is going to change. There's still a boatload of money out there for the "industry" yet to reap. The best we can hope for (from what I've seen from the attitude of the various committee hearings) is the health care industry will be given 10 years to suck as much money from us as they can. After the ten years are up, Congress will hold more hearings and, once again, come to the conclusion that a "public option" won't work.

Congress will then give the industry another ten years to fix it on their own.

By the time anything is done, there won't be enough money left for the industry to suck, let alone fund the mythical public option.

Nothing's going to happen.

People like me (people who've worked and saved their entire life, played by all the rules, you get the picture) will be driven into desperation after our homes, life savings and hope is all used up. We'll finally be thrown onto the backs of the few remaining taxpayers (middle and lower class, BTW as no upper class taxpayer truly exists). The "industry" will have sucked all of us dry and it'll all wind up on the taxpayer anyway.

Go ahead and give up. Write (and read) blogs about something else. Save your energy, you'll need it to carve your home from a cardboard box.