I may never eat sausage again...

[Cassandra]

if what goes into sausage looks anything like the process of this bill.

[secondwind]

1. hold your breath, chew it and swallow......there, that's better.

WE NEED TO GET THIS DONE!!! We can fix it later, like they did with Medicare, etc.

[Orrex]

4. It took me a while to come to that conclusion, but IMO it's the correct one

As Krugman has wisely pointed out, every time a healthcare bill returns after a defeat, it returns in a weaker form.

The current bill is very far from perfect, but if it gets passed--especially with coverage for 30M Americans--than it's greatly superior to 100 Public Option bills that didn't get passed.

[Warpy]

5. This pig's ear of a bill is better than nothing

although it does punish those of us who won't pay insurance costs for insurance that does nothing for us because of a particularly bad preexisting condition.

They'd be forced to write a policy, but I've seen nothing that would force them to cover the condition that causes us to need the insurance in the first place.

Still, it beats the nothing we would have gotten from Magoo. If you think nothing is better, try to live with nothing for as long as I have.

[Cassandra]

7. I mostly meant...

how hard the process is to watch. We don't actually know what this is going to look like yet. Only that it's not as good as it could have been.

[Orrex]

8. Well, you're certainly right about that!

I can spend all day rattling off the things I'd like to have in the in the bill, but for now it's a start.

The real work begins after it's passed.

[baldguy]

2. You didn't think "Everything but the squeal" was just a saying, did you?

[GreenArrow]

3. Sausage is better than this bill.

At least sausage is honest.

[AlinPA]

6. Interesting post- in a discussion about this bill with several people, we concluded

that the reason it is making so many people crazy on both sides is that it is getting more media coverage than any bill that we can recall. None of us (several people) could recall any bill getting this much coverage during its development

Every aspect of it has been covered 24 x7. The words "public option" must have been used hundreds of times a day on TV. The house version (HELP committee) got almost no coverage, but the senate finance committee (Baucus, et al) was covered in intense detail.

I'm not saying this coverage is bad, just that "watching sausage being made" is is an excellent way to describe it and it can turn people off the process and the product itself.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. What we got with this bill is more similar to the sausage the digestive "process" produces.

[BeFree]

10. heh

DU has resembled the making of sausage these last few weeks.

[HopeHoops]

11. Sausage is made from everything you can't use for anything else.

Scrapple is made from everything you can't use for sausage.

Bills are worse.