A couple honest questions – see how many you can answer:

1) If healthcare is such a priority now, how does it help to have most provisions of the current bill not start until 2014, and to not try to pay for it until 2018?

2) Speaking of which, if the costs are such a problem, how does it help that the plan is modeled on Massachusetts, where coverage is expanded but the state’s healthcare premiums are skyrocketing?

3) If Medicare is underfunded, how does it help that $500B comes out of its budget?

4) If insurance company profits are the problem, how does it help to mandate insurance and let insurance company profits go up?

Note that I have not used the words “Democrat” or “Republican” is any question, so if the answers could not contain the phrases “Its all Bush’s fault” or “The Republicans want Obama to fail” I’d appreciate it. KTHX.