Healthcare Reform: Sanity Check/Krugman nails in again - he is the conscience of the nation

...This message the blog received this morning speaks for the blog:

> "...I have no illusion that healthcare reform could be a multi-step
> process. The reality of the situation is that we might not have the
> votes in the U.S. Senate to push this through, but we should take
> this as far as we could until one of two events occur: (1) more
> favorable conditions are spawned, or (2) we sink into a deeper
> quagmire (probably the latter). A good number of our elected
> officials are either in the pocket of corporations or do not have
> the humble experience of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama.
>
> Bill Maher is right, we could talk America into anything or out of
> something we should have. We elected Bush twice and we went to war
> under false pretenses with our eyes wide opened. On the other end of
> the spectrum, we did not embrace healthcare reform in early '90s. We
> probably need a 9-11 or a "Pearl Harbor" in healthcare to re-learn
> the lessons of the past. Was that Winston Churchill who said that
> "America will eventually do the right thing; but only after all
> other means have been exhausted". When I say "we", I mean the
> collective America (and not necessarily you or me).
>
> This does not mean that we should slow down, though... This is just
> a sanity check..."
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