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No Exit, Ctd
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Megan throws some more cold water on health care wonks: If we get national healthcare, we will not get anything like the neat little systems proposed by academics who can assume away many of the political problems.  I am aware that proponents would rejoinder, that yes, they know it won't be perfect, but . . . But I'm not making the perfect the enemy of the good.  A national healthcare system in the United States will not merely be something sadly less than ideal--it will be nothing like most of the internally coherent proposals.  It will be ...

I Hope We Are Both Wrong
Balloon Juice — Me, discussing what I think will come from a future health care plan: Again, the only real question is will we be able to summon up our American ingenuity and in our Solomonic wisdom make a single-payer system that tries to adopt the best of both worlds, does neither, yet still manages to make the members of the gilded class even richer and leaves us with the worst health care system in the industrial and post-industrial world. Megan McCardle (via Sullivan): All of the problems with the Medicare ...