Thought for the Day - 2
How different would it have been if a healthcare bill had rolled out of the Senate Finance Committee in late June?
1) Committee chairmanships matter. 2) There was no administration supplied "bones" as a startpoint for negotiations.
1) Committee chairmanships matter. 2) There was no administration supplied "bones" as a startpoint for negotiations.
posted by mikevotes at
9:10 AM
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And this weeks SNL cold open made me wonder, "what if Hillary won?"
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-epm, at 12:10 PM
I didn't see it.
If Hillary Clinton had won, healthcare would be just as intractible, but with different levers.
There's too much money and too much GOP at stake against it
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mikevotes, at 2:00 PM
My thinking was, how much was lost in Obama's effort at "bipartisanship" and post-partisan politics. Maybe nothing would be different. Maybe Clinton's "old school" politics would have forced more change. Or maybe the same old school politics would have just made for faster -- but empty -- "reform."
I really don't know. But it would be interesting if I could manipulate time and space to find out.
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-epm, at 3:50 PM
I getcha. It's a lost time argument. I could ee that.
On the other hand, Clinton wouldn't have won NC or Indiana or probably Virginia, so she would have come in with far less momentum to squander.
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mikevotes, at 5:09 PM
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