Ethics

Reconciliation and History

By Ed Brayton

NPR documents that reconciliation has been used for decades to pass various health care reform measures. As usual, the Republicans are lying and claiming something is "unprecedented" when they've done that very thing themselves innumerable times.

But health care and reconciliation actually have a lengthy history. "In fact, the way in which virtually all of health reform, with very, very limited exceptions, has happened over the past 30 years has been the reconciliation process," says Sara Rosenbaum, who chairs the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University.

Here's the list from NPR:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 05, 2010 (boomark / email).