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Democratic leadership is pushing around this Ezra Klein story about how the health care bill passed by the Senate incorporates all the major ideas from Republican health care proposals. Tort reform, interstate insurance, the ability for states to design their own plans, capping the employer deduction, throwing out public options in favor of a private-only solution – it’s all there.
Some of us already know that. And you can pretty well explain the unpopularity of reform among the base of the Democratic Party by relating these facts. It doesn’t exactly make any liberal too pleased, see, that a 40% majority in Congress got far more concessions from the bill than they should have possibly expected, with very few concessions – community health centers? – on the other side of the ledger. And, as Ezra noted, Republicans don’t want their ideas in a health care bill, they want no health care bill at all, so they’re not exactly going to be pleased by this document either.
So who is it for? I really have no idea.
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Tort reform, interstate insurance, the ability for states to design their own plans, capping the employer deduction, throwing out the public option and saving trillions of debt liberals are wanting to impose on future generations. Mr. Dayen…the latest polls show liberals are in the 20 percent minority? And our Presient as a 40% approval rating. Congress is in the low 20′s. Wake up and smell the frijoles!
This leads me to believe that this is, indeed, largely a stunt to show Republicans for what they are; Obstructionists through and through. I don’t know why they’re even bothering with a meeting otherwise.
It’s fine with me. Prove once and for all that these assholes have nothing to say.
The [Edited by Moderator. No personal attacks and insults directed at other commenters] has spoken!