Ben Nelson Is Senate Democrat Most Likely To Vote Against His Party: Analysis

It struck me that you may have your finger on their pulse - certainly far more than I do.



You answered my question, although you misconstru­ed where I was coming from a little. I was in no way trying to assert that the recently passed health insurance reform bill will do anything at all to control costs. Nothing could be farther from my view on the matter.



In fact, if anything, insurance companies will use it as a means to increase premiums - while they figure out how to get past the future mandate of spending x% of their premiums only on health care. I expect that they (and their Congressio­nal minions) will make that mandate their primary repeal target.



What I was trying to suggest hypothetic­ally was that if the President had taken a far more direct approach to actually reforming health care instead of trying to prune a little here and nip-tuck a little there, I think he'd have provided Congress with popular support on the issue. For example, if it were framed as a way to save average families hundreds or thousands a year (yes, at the expense of some jobs and a shakeup of insurance-­company-ce­ntric stock portfolios­, but still framable as "corporate welfare"), I think a larger swath of the public would have supported a more substantiv­e bill. I was wondering if farmers could have been motivated to support such an initiative­.
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