Overdue Bill

after almost a year of fighting to pass the health reform bill, it seems like the Democrats have lost its momentum. quite frankly i am disappointed with how things turned out up till now, though not completely surprised. okay so scott brown won the special election for Massachusetts' senate seat, which left the 59 senate democrats with 1 vote short to block the filibuster. i can understand it must have caused a lot of distress to everyone who wanted to pass the health reform bill, but for dems to freak out like they did was kinda like seeing a bunch of adults wet their pants when things don't seem to work out well. a bit uncalled for. now experts in the healthcare arena has urged the house dems to pass the senate bill, and then amend portions of it in the budget reconciliation process, but there are also talks about splitting the bill into many smaller pieces which many health policy experts said will not do much good. the president seems to wanna divert the attention to another of his headache -- the skyhigh unemployment rate -- and is talking about passing a jobs bill. his diversion to another issue may seem like a good thing for the congress to keep working on the health bill whilst not have people getting too worked up because the process is just getting too draggy, it definitely seemed like the dems are on the verge of giving up, and that is just not good for their party (and definitely, if i may say, a disaster for the country).
the irony behind this is that it really is a no-brainer to understand that this healthcare reform bill is a good thing for the nation. it might not do a great job in cost control, but it would at least provide health care access to 30 million (give or take, i can't remember the exact number) people who don't have health care right now. not passing the bill would mean that the status quo prevails, which in essence would consume more of the country's GDP (projected to be 20% of GDP by 2020), which would in turn cause health care to be unaffordable to even more people. it is, quite obviously, a downward spiral into a deep dark hole. so dark you couldn't even go consult your doctor without having to fork out a huge copayment and make an appointment weeks ahead. so dark you might wanna consider selling part of your liver for your heart transplant surgery. but oh wait, maybe that's that enough. you might have to sell your house and everything you own to get that heart surgery, only to survive the ordeal and live on the streets. yay for democracy in america.

ok maybe that's too bleak a picture. but it's close, if things don't change. sometimes i wonder what good would democracy like this do for the country and its people?! if it were china we're talking about, their leaders would take matters to hand and get what needs to be done done. that's not to say their autocracy (or whatever you call their ruling ideology) is perfect. but at least it wouldn't allow the one party to smother the country by spreading untrue rumors or filibuster certain important bill like this one, just to see the ruling party fail.

but seriously. it's high time they pass the bill and get some people the care they need, don't you think? (will go into how most people in general think about this whole refrom in another post)