Healthcare
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Fighting for Healthcare Reform (Updated)
It's easier to fight against something you hate than for something you feel ambivalently about, and that's the problem with Dems' healthcare program. It's such an ambiguous mishmash of compromises that's it's hard to get enthusiastic about it or even to develop a coherent argument to defend it–not that coherent arguments would make much difference
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Health Care I (Updated)
Mr. Baucus says his group will produce the bill that best meets Mr. Obama’s top priorities, broadly expanding coverage to the uninsured and curtailing the steep rise in health care spending over the long term, what policy makers call “bending the cost curve.” Still, if the three Democrats and three Republicans can pull off a
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Change Can We Believe In?
This blog's primary mission has been to make the attempt to understand the nature of cultural change and its political effects. My basic premise has been that we are in the midst of dizzying changes that we mostly don't understand, that our politics has been several years behind the curve because of its principals' commitment
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Obama the Subsidiarist
Frank Rich's column this morning makes much the same point about Clinton's campaign I made in this post last week: for all her vaunted experience and management expertise, the two most prominent opportunities for Clinton to demonstrate her executive competency were her heading the healthcare task force in her husband's administration and now her running