Falling Apart on the Obama Healthcare Trip

According to media accounts, the impact of the "reform" on state budgets became a major issue in Friday's talks. There has been broad circulation of the report that Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson and his wife had been driven out of a pizza parlor near their home last week, by patrons furious at his vote for Obama's healthcare, and on Friday, Nelson wrote Reid that there should be no special deal for Nebraska; all states should be treated equally. At the same time, the three key House committee chairmen, Rangel (NY), Waxman (CA), and Miller (CA), are reported to be trying to reverse features of the Senate bill which would stick their states with billions in added costs, mainly for Medicaid. This bill sucks and should be sabotaged and killed.