It's August 18th, Do You Know What Your Health Reform Plan Is?

Hey, you created me. I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!

Tyler Durden, Fight Club

Well, here we are, half way through August, and one essential fact about health care - excuse me, health insurance - reform remains: We still haven't the faintest idea of what health ca... er, insurance reform actually means to the President of the United States. Or Congress.

And now non-profit insurance co-ops, whatever the fuck is meant by that term, are in the mix.

Wonderful. That, coupled with Obama's new-found clarity on the public option ought to reassure the roughly one-half of the citizenry that Congress and the Administration has managed to scare the shit out of. I know I feel better.

Let's review:

We have a House bill Barack Obama has never specifically endorsed, and...

We have... uh, well, uh...

Health insurance reform!

Which is, uh, well, er...

Way better than health care reform!

And what is health insurance reform?

Well, uh, it involves having a publc option...

Maybe...

Or maybe not.

Kinda depends...

It might include, uh, co-ops instead.

Maybe...

Or maybe not.

That's about the size of it. So ask yourself: How can this not work?

My position on health care, er, insurance reform? Until someone - i.e., Barack Obama - is willing and/or able to tell me what the fuck it actually is, I'm against it.

Comments

[Tim]

Well, since it seems to keep changing, you can be for it and I'll be against it. Just to make sure we have full coverage, so to speak.

[Tim]

Oops. Some unknown outsider messed up my post which actually never happened. You can be against it, I'll be for it. But that's not a flip flop. Splunge!!

[JeffS]

Me, I'm still waiting for my flying unicorn.

[Progressive White Liberal]

See, Dennis, this is why we HAVE to pass welfare reform! So we can decide what it is after it becomes law!

[richard mcenroe]

JeffS -- Most people don't realize that the unicorns are being farmed for organs for free transplants under ObamaKill. That's why deliveries are backed up. That, plus the clunker credit backlog on that ratty old pegasus you turned in.

Of course, this means that unicorns are being killed, but what the hell, as long as something dies, Barry and Zeke are happy...