Unfortunately, it appears that major benefits – Exchanges, Subsidies, Adult Preex Ban and even Medicaid Expansion – will only be available starting in 2014? Does the delay to 2014 mean that we have accepted 200,000 deaths as inevitable? I would have thought we would treat this situation to be a National Emergency perhaps even more serious than Katrina and 911 and Iraq war – in terms of toll taken in human lives.

Jerry, I wholeheartedly support your statement. In fact is the only reason I accepted the bill was 45,000 needless deaths per year for lack of Health Care Insurance – lamented by the President in all his speeches after the Harvard Medical School study was published. making it a moral imperative to pass the HCR legislation asap. Unfortunately, it appears that major benefits – Exchanges, Subsidies, Adult Preex Ban and even Medicaid Expansion – will only be available starting in 2014? Does the delay to 2014 mean that we have accepted 200,000 deaths as inevitable? I would have thought we would treat this situation to be a National Emergency perhaps even more serious than Katrina and 911 and Iraq war – in terms of toll taken in human lives.