Empowerment Care 2

I hope that at least some folks took note of what happened here. I put forth a health-care proposal that a) achieved universal coverage, b) seriously cut back on the power of those dreaded insurance companies (yes, a smidgen of sarcasm), c) treated the rich and poor identically, d) provided minimum standards of care, and e) put the patient much more in charge of his own health-care decision. But, because it had one, ONE, Republican idea (health savings accounts), it was essentially rejected out of hand by the progressives. Nice, huh?..................................................................................................We are a country that is WAY divided, folks. And, while, yes, there are people on the right such as the Tea Party who are hugely responsible for it, I would also dare to say that there are a fair number of recalcitrant people on the left as well - this particular topic prototypically illustrative of it, I think.