thedailybeast.com— Harry Reid may have gotten a health-care deal, but he’s not doing his party—or the country—any favors. Tunku Varadarajan on the scary Medicare buy-in, and other goblins lurking within.
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Really? Robert Reich just sent me an email saying something different: \\Hi. I'm Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton and currently a professor at the University of California. You've probably heard about a possible "deal" in the Senate to do away with the public option.I'm here to tell you that this is no deal: it's a gift to Big Insurance, plain and simple. The details are sketchy. The only thing that's really clear is the deal would drop the public option from the bill. With no public option, there's no guarantee of real competition. And without real competition, health care costs will continue to be out of control. ///
What is scary is that this guy, like so many others, doesn't seem to care. The article is about how he doesn't like Harry or Nancy and some random details. No superior alternative is proposed and the author seems to think that health care reform is as unnecessary as working with people who have different views. With this kind of childishness in the foreground our nation will always be unstable and weak.
mbraynardDec 11, 2009
Really? Robert Reich just sent me an email saying something different: \\Hi. I'm Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton and currently a professor at the University of California. You've probably heard about a possible "deal" in the Senate to do away with the public option.I'm here to tell you that this is no deal: it's a gift to Big Insurance, plain and simple. The details are sketchy. The only thing that's really clear is the deal would drop the public option from the bill. With no public option, there's no guarantee of real competition. And without real competition, health care costs will continue to be out of control. ///
shwaavayDec 11, 2009
Ummmm... Cool story?
dalittleDec 11, 2009
Medicare overhead is 2-3%. The overhead of private health care is 20-30%.
varun1sDec 11, 2009
your reasoning is spot-on!! don't know why they dugg you down
drinking12manyDec 11, 2009
unfortunatly yes because you cant do those two things without increasing costs to somebody.
m0lluskDec 12, 2009
What is scary is that this guy, like so many others, doesn't seem to care. The article is about how he doesn't like Harry or Nancy and some random details. No superior alternative is proposed and the author seems to think that health care reform is as unnecessary as working with people who have different views. With this kind of childishness in the foreground our nation will always be unstable and weak.
supervepr308Dec 16, 2009
I love my Mossberg 500 tactical.