The Time Is Now

We must press on!

I have not heard of any corporations lining up in support of the proposed health care reform legislation. In fact, they have been spending millions of dollars paying off republicans and "blue dog" democrats to do their bidding for them, financing commercials and staging demonstrations at town hall meetings and elsewhere to spread their lies in an effort to defeat the legislation. Unless the government takes action with a strong public option, there will be no competition for the insurance companies and they will continue to strangle us all. Without a public option in place, their will be no motivation for the industry to bring down costs. If we don't do this now, there may never be another chance in our lifetimes. Every day we wait, more people die because they do not have health insurance coverage. Every day that we waste battling, the chances that we will ever have effective change get smaller and people continue to die. Rolling back the Bush tax cuts will go a long way toward paying for the changes.

***The Presiding Pundit is back after several weeks of absence due to illness.  Thanks to Brooklyn Beagle for making sure the blog did not die from lack of entries during  this time.