Welcome back from a hopefully long, restful weekend of eating too much and catching up with family and friends. I took the opportunity to kick back and branch out my reading into other areas besides healthcare. Following Roethlisberger’s concussion, Federer’s fifth time ending the year at #1, and Tiger’s defeat by a fire hydrant and a tree, I thought about the decisions – good and bad – that led to and followed from those events.

Federer gets the crown for best decisions, Tiger wins the dunce cap for worst. Then I happened upon a four-letter word: trigger. In the world of Washington, D.C., ‘trigger’ is the definition of deciding NOT to make a decision. Welcome back to the healthcare reform debate.

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If you thought the Senate’s “option B” of a public option trigger was a great idea, you need to read this. Get a crash course on this underhanded political trick, and why Olympia Snowe recommended it in the first place. Read it here.            blogsurfer.us