The health care reform proposal in the Senate that has a chance of becoming law is about as liberal and government take-overish as bacon and eggs. Andrew Sullivan, as he often does, cuts through the hyperventilating.
The bill
1. cuts Medicare to make it more efficient (used to be a GOP agenda item)
2. provides subsidies that go to pay private INSURANCE company premiums
3. Has no public option or expansion of medicare. (does have expansion of medicaid)
4. Calls for studying and further rewarding best practices in medicine instead of payments by the test and procedures (sounds like a pretty merit-based, conservative principle)
5. mandates insurance for everybody, thereby providing a huge customer base for private insurers
6. makes all the insurance practice reforms, pre-existing conditions, etc., that all politicians say they accept.
It doesn't even come close to the single-payer plan most developed countries have and what most liberals in congress want.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
"The health care reform proposal in the Senate that has a chance of becoming law..."
It has about as much chance of becoming law as I do of becoming the next Pope. THANK YOU SCOTT BROWN!!!
Or maybe you missed the whole election thing last week. Google "Republican Scott Brown wins Senate election in Massachusetts even though the state is somewhere around 80% Democrat because the people are against the healthcare bill and Obama is WAY too liberal even for the majority of liberals."
Or maybe they're just all racist like Keith Olberman would have you believe.
Post a Comment