Blog 9.1

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30292853/

This article is about how senators are now looking at real possibilities in how to insure the over 50 million people who are currently uninsured.  I liked how in the first paragraph it says, “Hopes are high that Democrats and Republicans can find common ground for a bill to emerge by summer”.  The article talks about how hard and how “history-making” this bill will have to be; health care reform has a history of failing in this country for the past 50 years.  This article also talks about how bold it will have to be to try to unsure the millions who are not covered during this time of recession and national debt.  Senator Max Baucus of Montana said that the only way for this sort of legislation to pass is to “do it in a way that keeps the vast majority of both parties moving in the same direction”.  This article says that liberal democrats would prefer to pay for all of this through upper-income tax increases and sales tax increases on alcoholic beverages, tobacco products and even sugary sodas. Republicans want “most of the financing to come from spending cuts and from making the health care system less wasteful”.