Make or Break?

I vote we break. Kill the so-called "health care reform" and kill it dead. Then start over.

Repeal EMTALA.

Allow individuals, organizations, and businesses to buy insurance across state lines.

Broaden COBRA.

Enact tort reform. Limit punitive damages, and distribute liability according to fault - not which defendants parties pockets are the deepest.

Require participation by Congress, the immediate family of members of Congress, and all non-military federal employees on a mandatory basis in any "public option" plan passed as their sole and only form of medical coverage and/or treatment. Or just don't do a "public option". Offer insurance vouchers to the uninsured, who may then choose a plan and coverage that best suits their unique needs.

Come next fall, let the axe fall swiftly. Political retribution is in the air, and may both parties take it in the shorts. Repeatedly. With vigor. Barring particularly splendid service to the Federal and various state Bills of Rights, vote the bastards out - each and every one (with exceptions as noted above).

Bring back campaigns to add "none of the above" as a valid ballot option for all offices. Implement term limits. Run for office or try to recruit candidates. Hold house parties.
Network. Make friends and build alliances, even with those you'd otherwise find repugnant.

If worst comes to worst, we're going to have a whole bunch of repealing to do come 2016, at the latest. Likely easier to start road-blocking the worst of it in 2010.

It beats armed insurrection all hollow, at least from the way the last time we tried that as a nation looks in the history books.