Legal Commentary

Breaking: Kent Conrad Opposes Government Run Health Insurance (Medicare)

By Big Tent Democrat

Here's a shocker - Ezra Klein gets Kent Conrad to admit he opposes government run health insurance programs like Medicare:

[KLEIN:]Do you support the public option?

[CONRAD:] No. [. . .] I don't think a government-run plan best fits this culture. A plan that's not government-run has the best chance of succeeding in being passed into law. [. . .] [T]he public option as defined by the committee of jurisdiction in the House, the Ways and Means Committee, is tied to Medicare levels of reimbursement. [. . .] If my state is tied to that reimbursement, every hospital goes broke.

The solution seems obvious to me - North Dakota should be exempted from Medicare and all government run health insurance programs.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 24, 2009 (boomark / email).