The Republican members of the committee asserted that the healthcare delivery miasma that is the US model can and should be reformed with no “government option” being a component of the reform. The feelings of the Democratic members were summed by Chairman Stupak, “Some of us on the other side see it differently.” President Obama has insisted that a “government option” be part of any reform, to among other things, “keep the industry honest.”
Every one of us must decide which port we feel offers us the greatest safety, for the most affordable price. For me the decision is easy, because the evidence is preponderant, and because the coldly calculating dollars-above-all-else reactions and responses by the industry CEOs to the plight of the witness-victims of inexplicable, amoral industry policies vividly recalls, “The horror, the horror.”
— Ed Tubbs
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