Reply #53: Acceptance of false choices and innacurate framing is one of the prime reasons

[depakid]

that America has become a failing state.

There was and is no reason whatsoever that health care legislation- especially with all of the talk of reducing the deficit, couldn't be moved through the Senate on a 50 +1 vote via the reconciliation process.

Republicans used the Byrd rule to push through much more dubious propositions.

Instead, you've been sold a bill of goods- increasingly expensive, high deductible, high copay, junk insurance for all- and told that that's all you can get. On the whole- it's effect will be worse than the status quo (and fails to solve any of the underlying root causes) yet so dissatisfied are some with the current morass- and desperate to pass some sort of bill, that they're willing to accept dysfunctional policy that will end up- among other things- lowering most people's standard of living (while padding the coffers of one of the most abusive industries in America).