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A Health Care Reform Capitulation Even Ezra Klein Won't Support

By Big Tent Democrat

The rare capitulation Ezra Klein won't support has been discovered:

I'm firmly on the record as being willing to support all manner of compromises [BTD: no sh*t] on health-care reform. Policy dogmatism has not, over the long history of this issue, proven a successful strategy. But there's an increasingly evident path by which health-care reform begins to hurt the very people it's meant to aid. As Jordan Rau reports, making health-care reform affordable for the centrists in the Congress could make it unaffordable for the people.

The funny thing is Ezra sees no correlation between his urging of capitulation on health care reform and the inevitable capitulation on the parts of the bill he cares about. If it was not so sad, it would be hilarious.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 04, 2009 (boomark / email).