[Ben Lahnger]

Despanan, good stuff there. Thanks for the quoting it.

He's largely correct on the matter. The democrats did reject some Republican proposals too near the end as they ran with an all or nothing approach of their own on the final bill, but at that point the Republican strategies up till them left them with no choice but to do so.

I'm not unhappy that a need that's been discussed by politicians for nearly 100 years (a news report I saw the other day cited President Teddy Roosevelt as having first brought up making health care available to all Americans in 1912) has finally been addressed, but the partisan politics that were in play here (correctly identified by Mr. Frum as being largely the Republicans fault for playing hardball all the way) have left us with a bill with some problems.

Is it better than no bill at all? Yes in the short term. I'm worried about the long term.

I'm also hoping that the uncivil discourse settles down for a bit. I'm tired of all the bad behavior on both sides of the aisle.