voices.washingtonpost.com - 7/7/2009
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Excellent point Ezra and one that isn't made nearly often enough. I tend to think of it is a pie chart of 47 million uninsured, with two big slices being: 1. Medicaid Expansion, i.e., catching all the Alabama’s up to all the Massachusetts’ 2. Enrolling those who are Medicaid eligible but are not ...
firedupmissouri.com - 7/10/2009
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firedupmissouri.com —
Today on the conservative talk radio station, The
Eagle 93.9, Roy Blunt shared some pretty incredible thoughts
on the problems of public health care. Government health care programs are so awful, Blunt said, that the federal government ...
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Roy Blunt: It would have been "best" if Medicare and ...
slate.com - 7/13/2009
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slate.com —
Ezra Klein is concerned-- or rather, he's "gripped"
by an "unsettling thought": [H]ealth-care reform isn't simply suffering
because the public is overly opposed to some of its revenue raisers. It's suffering because the public is insufficiently ...
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Ezra Klein, Concern Troll
reason.com - 7/7/2009
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reason.com —
Over at the Washington Post , omniscient child
pundit Ezra Klein attempts to solve the inevitable underlying
economic context behind the Post getting caught last week trying to peddle its own ass to health care lobbyists: The question, then, is ...
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Ezra Klein: Better to Subsidize Big Media Than Let Them ...
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The Details Of Other Things Do Matter
Eschaton —
But without a quality public plan, it isn't really health care reform, it's just messing around with it. And from an outsider's perspective, it's the one clear marker we can lay down and declare a lack of it a dealbreaker. Similarly, the details of a public plan matter. A lot. And a really horrible public plan isn't any better than no public plan. But while activist bloggers can't get lawmakers to agree to some 65 point public plan, they can maybe get them to agree to only vote for something with a strong public plan. It's fine to think wonky thoughts, but it isn't ...
Wyden health care round-up (and Ezra Klein)
BlueOregon —
... In the Washington Post today, Ezra Klein wonders if the existence of a public plan alone is the right benchmark to measure health care success and discusses the five most important aspects of the debate that aren't related to the public plan. ...
7/7: The New Benchmark
Blogometer —
... : "Emanuel's orientation is to accommodate centrists and kick liberals. He's been doing it since he entered politics." It's become clear that the existence of a public option (or lack thereof) will determine whether or not liberals consider health care reform a success -- even though some complain that "it's not necessarily a very good benchmark." Meanwhile, ...
Ezra Klein vs. Atrios: How Important is the Public Health Insurance Option?
Firedoglake —
... Ezra Klein has an important post assessing the relative importance of having a public health insurance option versus other reform elements. He concludes that there are at least five other issues that are even more important than whether the reforms include a public option. ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 7/6/2009 — (cc photo by fw190a8)
Last night Atrios said that without a public plan “there really isn’t much point to any of this. The public plan is the point.”
I think that’s wildly overstating the case. There are several ...
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voices.washingtonpost.com 5/28/2009 — Come on Ezra, this is a myth. It's really the standard defense against single payer -- "The public will not put up with a government run health insurance scheme." There is plenty of evidence that the American people hate our system and are ready for a ...
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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 6/9/2009 — Tyler Cowen is assessing the current state of debate over a public plan option. The central question we need to get straight is whether or not the public plan needs a subsidy. Clearly, the government can drive out private insurance ...
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voices.washingtonpost.com 7/21/2009 — I wish that the President would stop talking down to us. When he says that 80% of the two bills will overlap, and that "only" 20% will be different, he knows perfectly well that the 80% is safe, noncontroversial stuff and that the 20% includes ...
Ezra Klein -- Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Health-Care Reform
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