Hard-Won Perspective

Because I am 76 years old and have been paying attention for most of that time, I can tell you what's going on with health legislation in Washington.
The old farts in the Senate are clashing with the young Turks in the White House. The former believe in deliberation, practice, and understanding. The latter think it is possible to be be too deliberate, and to understand too much. They are result-fixated; rather like throwing spaghetti against the wall to see if it sticks.
We faced this in our Church Workday, when the young Turks were in charge. We got prodigious amounts of work done, some of it awful. For example, an amateur crew refinished cabinets, and the result was shameful. They didn't think they had to learn to do it.
We old farts believe in experience, because we've had a lot of it. When the Chuck Grassley's of the world boast they've held up Obamacare, they think it's a good thing. And if Diana Finestein is right and they've funded it in the Finance Committee (Grassley's bailiwick) then it is a good thing, indeed.
Makes you believe in the Senate as a deliberative body. But for heaven's sake, let's get this thing done.