Thursday, November 13, 2008
Health Care
Elsewhere, Klein dissects the politics of it. The short version is that Baucus has now asserted a leading role in the Senate and a leading role in health care reform, and has ensured that Congress will play an integral role in the shaping of that reform (as opposed to the White House-led reform spearheaded by the Clintons). That said, it's worth reading both of Klein's pieces in full.
The Baucus Health Care Proposal
Written by Matthew Locke at 8:18 AMEzra Klein, who knows a hell of a lot more about this than I do, summarizes Baucus's plan:
Do not think of this as Max Baucus's health care plan. It isn't. Not yet. As of now, it's a policy paper, not a piece of legislation. It is the beginning of Max Baucus's attempt to create a health care reform process. What Baucus has offered is not the Max Baucus health care plan, but the generic Democratic health care plan. The place from which the policy process among congressional Democrats can start. It is extremely similar to the Obama plan if you added a mandate, and to the Clinton and Edwards plans if you left them untouched. If you liked those plans -- and most Democrats, eventually, did -- you like this one. It's as basic as that.
Elsewhere, Klein dissects the politics of it. The short version is that Baucus has now asserted a leading role in the Senate and a leading role in health care reform, and has ensured that Congress will play an integral role in the shaping of that reform (as opposed to the White House-led reform spearheaded by the Clintons). That said, it's worth reading both of Klein's pieces in full.
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