Down the Slippery Slope

We all know there are 4/5 versions of the Obama inspired, Congress written Health Care Reform drafts floating around...somewhere...the 1,500 pager, HR3200, is the one everyone's all "wee wee'd up" about. Are the rest of them also 1,500 pages? Round and round and round they go, where they stop nobody knows!

Word of the day: Coercion

What if a company offers Health Insurance to its employees. Can the employer then (if it is passed) offer the "public option"? Or does the enployer then drop the Insurance he is offering and pay a fine for not offering insurance, but his employees are insured because there is the 'public option'? Or does it mean that the only plan the employer can offer is the Public option. If he offers one of the private insurances does he get fined? It sounds like government coercion to me. There is no way to win for losin'.

Which brings me to the anti-anti Health Care Reform protesters (ACORN, SEIU. AFL-CIO, Color of change, Code Pink, etc)...

• I wonder if these hired chartered bus ridin', tee-shirt wearin', pre-printed sign carrin' chanters even have a clue about what they protest.
• Why do the pro-HCRers have to pay their "believers" to disrupt honest and sincerly fired up concerned citizens in the "town hall meetings"?
• Do they even understand the cause?
• Do they have a clue what they stand to lose? (other than a little after hours income...)
• What government grant is being used to pay for this?
• Are they being coerced?

The more I think I have it straight in my mind the more this feels like the slipperiest slope going.

"I'm just waitin' for the other thoughts to string all this mess together."

Charlie Farmer "The Astronaut Farmer"