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Riehl World View: Is The Opt Out Option Constitutional?
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Never underestimate the ability of a red-stater to vote against their own self-interest
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Will any states actually opt out of the public option? Nahhhh...http://bit.ly/4AzQLO 28 days ago |
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Politics Of The Opt-Out PO http://bit.ly/hmDZY 30 days ago |
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Gr8 article on how #publicoption opt-out puts GOP in unwinnable position. The Daily Dish, by Andrew Sullivan http://bit.ly/h2ZOQ #HCR 30 days ago |
Time bomb?
The Reality-Based Community —
Andrew Sullivan thinks that the public option with an opt-out will be catastrophic for Republicans going forward, with state-level GOP pols having to choose between terminally annoying the base (and facing primaries) or voting against giving a concrete benefit to actual people. I’m not sure why Andrew thinks of this as “a brutal, Chicago-style political maneuver,” but I hope he’s right. Posted: Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 10:51 am ...
Is The Opt Out Option Constitutional?
Riehl World View —
... Andrew Sullivan finds cause to give liberals credit for being brilliant as a result of the public opt out option. To begin with, an option with an expiration date is not option at all. But does he really believe this will devolve into a state-by-state debate that will make liberalism popular again? The problem is, the bill is quite possibly unconstitutional on its face. It'll see a court challenge before anything else, perhaps even from both sides. If it's constitutional, then a state government would have every right to do away with Medicare, along with several ...
Never underestimate the ability of a red-stater to vote against their own self-interest
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
I'm skeptical of Andrew's argument on why the Opt-Out Public Option could spell trouble for the GOP. Imagine Republicans in state legislatures having to argue and posture against an affordable health insurance plan for the folks, as O'Reilly calls them, while evil liberals provide it elsewhere.Imagine Republicans in red states convincing voters who don't have a lot of money, have precarious jobs if any, have a bad school system, have under-educated and less-than-healthy children, and whose home is about to be foreclosed on - imagine the Republicans being ...
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The politics of the opt-out compromise
Political Animal —
... But Josh's point is nevertheless compelling. It should be a fairly persuasive pitch to reasonable people: we'll give eligible consumers between competing public and private plans. If people don't like the idea of a government plan, they can reject it. And if individual states don't like the idea of giving consumers that choice, they can decide to remove it. Multiple levels of choice and competition -- what's so awful about that? Andrew Sullivan took this one step further yesterday, gaming out the politics if this plan becomes law. He called a "brutal" strategy being launched ...
Will any states actually opt out of the public plan?
Ezra Klein —
... Andrew Sullivan takes a look at what will happen if the Senate actually does pass an opt-out plan and sees disaster on the horizon for the Republicans. "Imagine Republicans in state legislatures having to argue and posture against an affordable health insurance plan for the folks, as O'Reilly calls them, while evil liberals provide it elsewhere," says Sullivan. "Now, of course, if the public option is a disaster in some states, this argument could work in the long run. But in the short run? It's a political nightmare for the right as it is currently constituted. In fact, I can ...
