What have You done for me Lately. Health Reform

What has the GOP done for health care reform alot and how. How, have their ideas come into this bill. By working together, there are over 200 ideas that are in this bill directly related to the GOP input. And to say anything different would be highly inaccurate. To say that the GOP was locked out of this process is a farce they have been apart of this process since it´s inception and all the committees they were apart of. There was not one committee that took place without GOP input and what took place in the voting process is the same as that of what the GOP has infused in our Democratic this process. It is no different than what we have lived with while they had the majority in power. EXCEPT, for one thing they don´t like to be on the losing side and will do anything to get it back. They have increased the rhetoric that the GOP is the best party and we are here to protect you and knowone else can, only US, the Republican Party, but really what has the GOP done lately besides spend, spend and spend even more. As well as create a WAR that has cost us HUMAN LIVES and TRILLIONS of dollars for a campaign that was said to only cost a few billion dollars and Discretionary spending under Bush rose from $649.3 billion in 2001 to more in each successive later years of his presidency . And included this is his infamous exist strategy for bailing out Wall Street ,the Banks, and the Auto Industry. Pres Bush in these years was the most expensive President in US history. Oh, and for those that have environmental issues that were in the forefront, as a Republican issue what about this
Gale A. Norton. (2001 to 2006). A controversial appointee and a foe of environmentalists, Norton has long advocated opening the Alaska National Refuge to oil exploration, a position shared by President George W. Bush. She is also a proponent of giving states and localities broader jurisdiction over environmental issues. Then here comes Sarah Palin from Alaska as Govenor to save the day along with Sen. John Mcaine running for President and Vice President of the Republican Party. Oh and lest not forget how the Republican party feels about life.
Tommy G. Thompson. Thompson is pro-life, and as secretary of health and human services, he oversaw how federal funds are used to fund abortions and family-planning clinics. Oh how fast they can be and do at whatever is popular and created for the moment.
Henry Paulson. (2006 to 2009) Henry M. Paulson Jr., the former head of Goldman Sachs After he left office, Mr. Paulson was criticized by some for moving slowly to respond to the crisis, for an overly ad-hoc approach to the serial implosion of banks in 2008 and for being overly generous to the financial institutions the government bailed out. Mr. Paulson came under scathing attack from Republicans and Democrats in Congress over the government's role in Bank of America's purchase of Merrill Lynch in September 2008. At a July hearing, some Democrats accused Mr. Paulson of covering up the scope of Merrill's losses and the cost to the taxpayer, while some Republicans wondered whether Mr. Paulson and Mr. Bernanke had improperly pressured Kenneth Lewis, the chairman of Bank of America, into going and through with the deal to save Bank of America.
Mr. Paulson’s abrupt changes of course and failure to understand “the theater” of crisis management hurt his credibility and undermined public confidence. He says that President George W. Bush was “largely a spectator” to “the biggest threat to American prosperity in a generation” possibly because he knew how unpopular he was and figured “he would make Paulson’s job tougher if he appeared to be calling the shots” or because the Bush White House, “stumbling through its last few months, was simply exhausted and understaffed.” And he takes the former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan to task for allowing economic conditions to develop that fueled the credit crisis in the first place. “kept interest rates too low for too long,” missed warning signs that subprime mortgages were a growing problem and was reluctant to use its powers to restrain subprime lending. He adds that the former Fed chairman, revered during his tenure as an economic wise man, made the incorrect assumption that a national decline in house prices was extremely unlikely and “put too much faith in markets,” failing to use the Fed’s “regulatory clout and rhetoric to restrain the shortsighted, excessively ebullient players in financial markets and to at least try to resist the worst of the abuses in the subprime lending market.”

Mr. Greenspan’s successor, Mr. Bernanke, along with Mr. Paulson and Timothy F. Geithner, then the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (and now President Obama’s Treasury secretary), Mr. Wessel an author on Economics states, all “had a gut sense that the U.S. economy was overdue for a financial crisis of some sort” before the catastrophic events of the fall of 2007, but “no one at the Fed” rang “the gong and warned investors, lenders, business executives, and consumers that years of easy credit even for risky borrowers, placid markets, and shared optimism were unsustainable. Richard S. Fuld Jr., the company’s chairman and chief executive, and its president, Joseph M. Gregory, were leading Lehman off a cliff. Mr. Fuld and Mr. Gregory,
Mr. McDonald contends, ignored the warnings of three of the company’s “cleverest financial brains”: “Mike Gelband, our global head of fixed income, Alex Kirk, global head of distressed trading research and sales, and Larry McCarthy, head of distressed-bond trading.” Each and every one of them laid it out, from way back in 2005,” Mr. McDonald writes, “that the real estate market was living on borrowed time and that Lehman Brothers was headed directly for the biggest subprime iceberg ever seen, and with the wrong men on the bridge. Dick and Joe turned their backs all three times. It was probably the worst triple since St. Peter denied Christ.” So now, if you think that the Republicans have all the answers then why is it that when the warning was sounded that the GOP ignored the siren. So to scream, that the Democrats don´t know what their doing tell me how the Republicans saved us money and kept us from a depression. Fifty years later we finally have a LAW OF HEALTH REFORM thank you everyone and Thank You Democrats for doing the right thing helping to take care of OUR COUNTRY and Thank You Republicans for starting the process.