The Dems' Health Care Win

Ultimately, the Democrats who really do want to help people weren't going to miss a chance to get 30 million plus people health insurance for the rest of their lives.

Here's some more details on the final bill—Sen. Ron Wyden's exchanges were expanded, and smart cost control measures introduced by freshman Democrats also made it into the final bill.  Conservatives/Republicans should like both of these thing -- pity they, instead, spent all of their time acting like children (forcing the clerk to read entire amendments), refusing to join in improving the bill at all, and simply lying about the contents of it.  For shame -- and for stupid, too, because now, after all of that, it's going to pass anyway.

It looked like our base was going to be about as stupid as yours there for a while (thank you Howard Dean and Glenn Greenwald!)--but the logic of incremental reform finally kicked in. Ultimately, Dems/liberals really do want to help people -- it's what we do, it's who we are (he says proudly, if smugly) -- we weren't going to miss a chance to get 30 million plus people health insurance for the rest of their lives.  Apparently the Democratic caucus was overjoyed -- and that was the reason why.