Thursday, June 18, 2009

Brrr

I take cold showers occasionally. In the winter, usually, when I'm getting ready for my New Year's Day polar bear swim.

But this is my favorite cold shower to date:
This week, in the span of just 24 hours, the Congressional Budget Office issued three reports that effectively poured cold water on would-be reformers of the U.S. health insurance system.
They did a study of the impact of the "Kennedy" bill.
The CBO estimated that if the bill becomes a law, it would cause “a net increase in federal budget deficits of about $1.0 trillion” from 2010 to 2019. But according to the agency, the bill would still leave 37 million Americans uninsured by 2019.
This sort of reform
deserves water that's not warm.

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