Fred Hiatt. “If the cost controls from a public option go away then Congress will magically impose cost controls that affect vested interests even more directly” is a pretty impressive feat of illogic even by Hiatt’s standards. It’s almost as if Hiatt saw that DFH were in favor of something, needed to develop an ad […]
Tag: health care
I think Joan gets it right. On balance, I think it’s quite possible that giving up even this very thin veneer of bipartisanship would produce a better bill on balance, although given the number
On some level, taking Ceci Connolly to task for acting as a stenographer for insurance company interests willfully attempting to deceive the public is like criticizing a camel for having humps —
I’m not sure if this is really good news or not, for this reason: So Senator Snowe takes the leap, becoming almost certainly the only Republican, at least on this committee, to support the Democratic bill. But she cautions: “My vote today is my vote today, it doesn’t forecast what my vote would be tomorrow.” […]
Some excellent analysis from Plumer. The information about the aftermath of the C of C’s decision to initially support Clinton’s health care reform — which, after all, was in the int
I obviously agree with Ed Kilgore’s point that voting for cloture should be the minimal acceptable standard for being a Democratic caucus member in good standing, but I think this is an especial
That’s the basic moral of this story. I did a town hall-style health care debate last night in Denver with Hugh Hewitt, before an audience of 973 people, 964 of whom were shall we say predisposed to favor Hewitt’s views on the matter over mine. One of the questions from the audience was about the […]
Andy Engelson finds it to be more socialist than Communist Vietnam, thus supporting what we already know: the tea-baggers are idiots. The money paragraph(s): The much needed health reforms proposed in
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
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 really vote against this bill, and I don’t really care. From what I’ve seen so far the subsidies appear bad enough to make it […]
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 en
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 th