US Healthcare Reform Starting to Look a Lot Like Business As Usual

With the Democrats still trying to get their watered-down healthcare reform legislation passed, Republicans are taking the fight to state legislatures where they are attempting to block any attempt to force citizens to purchase health insurance. This state-level opt-out, which is at various stages in about two thirds of the fifty states, could be subject to a court challenge, but it signals the fact that the Republican and their insurance lobby supporters/masters are not backing away from the fight to maintain their country's status as the world's richest third-world nation.