Another example of the "but the New Deal and Great Society were bipartisan" argument. To add another point, as I understand it the political justification for seeking Republican support is that it would mean Democrats wouldn't "own" health care reform (this would seem to be...
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You've found the sweet spot; a compromise bill that everyone to the left of Snowe and to the right of Jay Rockefeller can support.I have no idea if Rockefeller would.
Shorter Susan Collins: "I can't support a trigger for a public option; everyone knows there's no chance the insurance companies I'm shilling for could decrease their looting enough to get.
To follow up a bit on Rob, I would have to say that I'm if anything a little more in sympathy with Matt's point. At the very least, if one thinks that Obama could get a good bill out of the Senate if he wanted...
I didn't see it live, but this is a useful summary.
Via Krugman (who does a good job of explaining why a reform bill should contain a public option), perhaps someone can make heads or tails of this Joe Klein argument,.
This is garbage:Doctors left a premature baby to die because he was born two days too early, his devastated mother claimed yesterday.Sarah Capewell begged them to save her tiny son, who was born just 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy - almost four...
Yglesias responds, conceding that the Swiss analogy doesn't really work "except in the broad sense that Switzerland is the other example of a developed country that came late to the.
Matt may well be right that whatever bill that emerges from Congress will be enough of an improvement over the status quo to be worth supporting. His claim, however, that.
JMM:Am I the only one who thinks that if the Dems pass a bill with mandates and subsidies for poor and moderate income people to purchase it but no public option or competition with the insurers, that it will be pretty much a catastrophe for...
Normally, my opposition to the continued existence of the U.S. Senate concentrates on how it hilariously distorts representation at the Federal level. Now, TPM has a decent overview of the twisted.
What's most striking to me about Joe Klein's leaked JournoList messages are the mash notes to Jim Cooper, the right-wing nominal Democrat who played a major role in destroying health.