Legal Commentary

A Reasonable Take On the Health Bills

By Big Tent Democrat

I prefer this to "Mission Accomplished" on health care (see Cenk Ugyur warning against "Mission Accomplished" on health care):

[W]e're not done. Even if the bill does a better job than CBO projects, health-care costs will still bankrupt us. This is one small step for cost, one giant leap for coverage. My great hope is that the bill makes the next steps easier. But there's still no guarantee we'll take them. And the debate and difficulty Congress had passing a bill that was too small and deeply compromised has left me very pessimistic about our system's capacity to make harder decisions. The danger is not that we can't solve our problems, but that we won't. And that's the biggest risk of all.

From Ezra Klein. Good post.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 24, 2010 (boomark / email).