On Thursday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), made the case for why the piecemeal approach shouldn't have been put together in the first place. In remarks that came shortly after the bipartisan health care summit reconvened after lunch, the Iowa Democrat spoke to how integrally tied together all of the reform proposals in the bill truly are. Take one out (the individual mandate) and the entire enterprise collapses (you can no longer simply stop discrimination of pre-existing conditions). That's why the bill is over 2,000 pages.
"An incremental approach is like throwing a drowning man 50 foot out a 10 foot rope," said Harkin
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