But the Wealthy Want Their Tax Cuts

Although I think we have a moral obligation to get health care for everyone in this country, some people think money is more important than, oh, people's lives.

Those people are invited to check out the editorial in today's Times:

Over the next two decades, the pending bills would actually reduce deficits by a small amount and reforms in how medical care is delivered and paid for — begun now on a small scale — could significantly reduce future deficits.... A trillion dollars is still a lot of money, but it needs to be put in some perspective. Extending Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy would very likely cost $4 trillion over the next decade. And the Medicare prescription drug benefit, passed by a Republican-dominated Congress, is expected to cost at least $700 billion over the next decade.