Legal Commentary

Hating The Villagers?

By Big Tent Democrat

Below I critiqued Jon Chait for writing "[t]he left has [. . .] help[ed] convince many liberals that the health care bill [. . .] is a worthless compromise not worth fighting for." Ironically, I then found this from Ezra Klein:

One of the problems with the health-care reform bill, I think, is that it's been oversold. [. . .] [I]t's not nearly so big as people think.

Ezra links to an earlier post, where he writes "We're doing a lot on health-care reform this year, but we're not doing that much. And we shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking otherwise. We'll be back at this again, and soon." Define soon, Ezra. The problem for the Senate bill proponents is the bill really is almost nothing in terms of reform. The undiluted progressive good in the bill is the expansion of Medicaid. Want to sell the bill to progressives? Stick to that point. The rest of the bill is not convincing at all.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 10, 2010 (boomark / email).