WARNING - DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH - AT 6:24 P.M. ET:  So much attention has been paid, understandably, to foreign affairs in the last two weeks that Americans may not be aware that health-care "reform" is moving through Congress.  The energy of the opposition seems exhausted.  The Dems are in control.  And, naturally, some of the so-called Blue Dogs - the moderate Democrats - are folding and taking their orders from the leadership.  (Blue Dogs often act like Blue Puppies.)  The New York Times is reporting:

WASHINGTON — With the Senate Finance Committee set to approve its health care bill this week, Democrats are tantalizingly close to bringing legislation that would make sweeping changes in the nation’s health care system to the floor of both houses of Congress.

Party leaders still face immense political and policy challenges as they combine rival proposals — two bills in the Senate and three in the House. But the broad contours of the legislation are in place: millions of uninsured Americans would get subsidized health benefits, and the government would move to slow the growth of health spending.

COMMENT:  Well, that's the optimistic point of view.  Would anyone out there like to place a little wager - not much - on the phrase, "slow the growth of health spending"?  Is the reporter serious?  We're talking liberal Democrats here.

I hope the town meetings start up again as this monstrosity moves forward.  The main bill is more than a thousand pages, and I suspect most members of Congress don't know what's in it.  This is a surprise we don't need.  It's change we should learn more about before we believe in it.

October 3, 2009