Political leadership or grandstanding?
What has become very clear to me, after watching the U.S. Health Care Summit between Democrats and Republicans as objectively as possible, is that the President’s goal was not to craft a thoughtful approach to shoring up and improving the U.S. health care system.
No, the reason for the President and the Democratic leadership to convene the so-called summit was to grandstand; to make a show; to create a photo opportunity; and, most importantly, to try to garner enough support from the Democrats in Congress to ram through the Reconciliation option on the behemoth, disastrous 2000-plus page version of the bill, filled with incomprehensible, internally conflicting doublespeak.
A sad day for American politics. A very sad day for American citizens. We deserve better.
Learning from Dogs 
I did not even watch the health care summit, or, rather, abyss. bother to And it is not just because I am in a saner country.
I do believe that they would be grand standing, that is all what they have been doing all year long. It was easy to implement my Medicare For All, which is completely tunable, and solves all the health problems at once. Moreover it was possible to use executive orders…
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