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TOPIC: "Winning ugly, but winning" (Washington Post Voices blog 12/24/09)


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"Winning ugly, but winning" (Washington Post Voices blog 12/24/09)
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Winning ugly, but winning

Ezra Klein

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Passing legislation, it turns out, is a long and ugly process. God, is it ugly. The compromises, both with powerful special interests and decisive senators. The trimming of ambitions and the budget gimmicks and the worship of Congressional Budget Office scores. By the end, you're passing a compromise of a deal of a negotiation of a concession.

But bad a system as it might be, it's the only one we've got. At least for now, this is what victory looks like. The slow, grinding, ineluctable advance of legislation that is quite similar, albeit not identical, to what you began with. It's not pretty, and it doesn't necessarily feel like winning is supposed to feel. But this bill will do most of the things supporters hoped it would do: cover about 95 percent of all legal residents, regulate insurers, set up competitive exchanges, pretty much end risk selection, institute a universal structure that we can improve and enhance as the years go on, and vastly reduce both medical and financial risk for families.

It's been a long time since the legislative system did anything this big, and people have forgotten how awful the victories are. But these are the victories, and if they feel bad to many, they will do good for more. As that comes clearer and clearer, this bill will come to feel more and more like the historic advance it actually is.

 


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-- Edited by Sanders on Thursday 24th of December 2009 10:37:34 PM

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I seriously doubt it will cover 95% of anyone.  It leaves a whole lot of people out and as its supposed to be 95% it falls short of Universal Health care.  I think its a bad law that needs to be challenged by someone until it gets to the Supreme Court.  People will be put in jail for not buying insurrance.

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There are very few articles out there that are positive on the Health care bill. Ezra Klein is basing his conclusions on the Kaiser Health News which is most certainly positive on the bill for all families (of 4) with income below $84k. Hence I quoted him. I thought I posted the KHN article. Let me look for it and post a link here.

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Just posted it here.


-- Edited by Sanders on Saturday 26th of December 2009 08:37:54 AM

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