Thoughts on healthcare
1) This certainly shows us that committee chairmanships do matter.
2) Max Baucus managed to bargain himself into a worse deal without getting anything back. (Did I say I'd pay $100? I meant $150.)
3) Obama's deference to Congress to allow them to write the health bill has kind of blown up on him. In the House he got something like he wanted, but they lost control of the Senate process which has cost time and significant political damage. If they'd have offered a bill as a starting point, it may have gone smoother.
And, AP Headline: New health proposal is industry's favorite so far. (They'd make hundreds of billions more under the Baucus plan.)
2) Max Baucus managed to bargain himself into a worse deal without getting anything back. (Did I say I'd pay $100? I meant $150.)
3) Obama's deference to Congress to allow them to write the health bill has kind of blown up on him. In the House he got something like he wanted, but they lost control of the Senate process which has cost time and significant political damage. If they'd have offered a bill as a starting point, it may have gone smoother.
And, AP Headline: New health proposal is industry's favorite so far. (They'd make hundreds of billions more under the Baucus plan.)
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