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And they counter Gregg's own piece in their pages to do so:
Gregg warns that Obama's plan would put government bureaucrats between patients and doctors, but there are bureaucrats there now. They work for companies that profit when they say no. Wendell Potter, a veteran head of corporate communications for Cigna who turned whistleblower, described those bureaucrats this way in one interview: "It doesn't have to be stated directly to them that you will be paid a particular bonus if you deny X number of claims; it's known, and it's part of the culture."
Gregg closed his piece by saying that it's time for Democrats in Congress to listen to the American people. They have been. That's why, despite Republican attempts to demonize health care reform, a meta-study of polls published in the Aug. 12 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans want major change and half to two-thirds of them want that change to include the ability to purchase a public health plan.
Between that and this graph, I'm not sure exactly what we are waiting for. Judd Gregg has one view, and the majority of American people another.
This was reflected on voting day last November, and should thus be reflected in the policy coming from those elected. Elections (even broken ones in 2000) have consequences, as Judd Gregg well knows.
I admire him for putting up as good a fight as he can, I really do, but the show is not worth the price of seeing our broken health insurance system destroy any more families' fortunes. The time for getting this done is now, Senate. Use the reconciliation process, if you must. The same process that Gregg used to give tax breaks to billionaires.
