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The Bipartisan Policy Center - Bipartisan = Bad Policy |
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The Bipartisan Policy Center is out with their bipartisan recommendations for health care [pdf], making even more clear what should have been quite evident before: Bipartisan policy doesn’t work.
In fact, these recommendations are a mishmash of some of the worst and most unpopular health care policies out there:
- Taxing our health benefits? Check.
- No public option, and a trigger for a weak public option if the health care crisis gets worse? (Aren’t we there yet?) Check.
- State or regional based public options or exchanges too weak to change market dynamics? Check.
If you took these bipartisan recommendations to heart, you’d end up with a patchwork health system, with none of the power to change the market and force insurance companies to be honest. But, you’d get Republicans to vote for it!
It can’t be repeated enough. Bipartisan health reform does not work. It does not solve our problems, and it might make them worse. As Howard Dean said, we’ve got to do what’s right for the American people, not what’s right politically for the Senate.
(also posted at the NOW! blog)
