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But Democrats have no choice but to pass health reform legislation of some kind and finally use the reconciliation mechanism that could have allowed them to construct a good bill in the first place. Otherwise, they will appear completely unable to govern -- while leaving millions of Americans without health insurance and 15,000 people a day losing it.
That's the rock. Now for the hard place.
The polling data are clear that 75% of voters, despite the concerns that led them to support health care reform so strongly during the 2008 campaign, now prefer to start from scratch or kill the bill. Democratic pundits take solace in quoting the statistics on how voters feel about individual components of the bill, which they largely suppor
The Way Forward on Health Care
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To his credit, the president pushed through a stimulus bill that prevented us from falling off the cliff. But he refused, as FDR had done, to brand the crisis that had occurred as the direct result of Republican ideology and governance. He refused to explain to the American people why deficit spending in times of a crashing downward spiral is a virtue and not a vice. And he refused to call out -- let alone even answer -- Republican politicians attacking him from his first days of office for deficit spending, although they had just created as much debt in 8 years as in the previous 200-plus with enormous tax breaks for the wealthy and a trillion dollar war "off the books," neither of which they even considered paying for
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#1 - Sun Mar 7, 2010 11:59 PM ESTHealth care, whether passed or not, will be a big issue in the November elections.
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