I don't know. I haven't studied the content of the proposed bill enough to understand it.

On second thought--yes, I do know. As much as I think there should be healthcare for a bunch of people who don't currently have it, unless our Congressional geniuses can come up with a way to make the proposed legilslation "deficit neutral", then enacting it now is a lousy idea.

From the little bit I'm hearing on the news coverage, that seems to be the direction it's going. I don't think even the huge majority of Congressional Democrats would have the guts to pass a bill that added over a trillion dollars to the national debt right now. Then again, maybe I'm giving them too much credit for their intelligence. If we don't already know that we need a new "435", that move would put the icing on the cake.

P.S. Keedy, that was a good segment from The Daily Show. I try to watch him as often as I can. Believe it or not, I think he often presents a view of the news in a way that a whole lot of people often agree with. And he makes you laugh while doing it. From the times I've watched him, he doesn't seem to lean left or right. If some politician does something really dumb, he leans on them. Like he said in the segment you linked that was critical of President Obama's "renaissance man" mentality, "...that's nice, now fix the economy."