NEW IDEA: Health Care for Hybrids

Liberals have never had a problem with new ideas. Democrats have a huge problem with getting them heard above the conservative administration and media ruckus about supposedly NOT having them. So here's one of the latest New Ideas from Democrats:

"Last Thursday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) introduced a 'Health Care for Hybrids' bill outlining a new approach for boosting fuel efficiency in Detroit. It would offer struggling U.S. automakers a voluntary but potentially enticing deal: relief from some of the high health-care costs they pay for retired employees (expected to total more than $5 billion in 2005) in exchange for a commitment to reinvest at least half of those savings into the development and manufacture of fuel-efficient vehicles."