Ezra Klein Archive: Health Reform
A very bad deal to pass a very good bill
The final compromises before a bill comes to the floor are never very pretty. This one, however, is worse than I anticipated. Opposition from anti-abortion Democrats, driven in large part by aggressive activism from the Catholic Church, forced Democratic...
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November 7, 2009; 11:40 AM ET |
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Can Congress control costs?
One of the more sophisticated arguments against health-care reform is that for all the sharp policies and elegant initiatives contained in the bill, none of it will work because Congress will vote to roll back the cost savings. The...
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November 6, 2009; 5:17 PM ET |
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Socialism in action
At Thursday's tea party march protesting government-run health care, a participant suffered a heart attack about 20 minutes into the proceedings. As Dana Milbank reports, medical personnel from the Capitol physician's office rushed over, attaching electrodes to the man's...
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November 6, 2009; 4:36 PM ET |
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An interview with Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson: Part 2
On Friday, I sat down with George Halvorson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed-care organization in the United States. The interview is long, so I'm transcribing it in parts. The first installment focuses on the role of private insurers,...
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November 6, 2009; 1:23 PM ET |
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Don't listen to Texas
Texas's Rick Perry and Mars's Newt Gingrich have an op-ed in The Washington Post this morning presenting the Lone Star State as an example of all the whiz-bang health-care innovation being generated at the state level. "Texas," they write,...
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November 6, 2009; 11:19 AM ET |
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A more modest vision for the public plan
Jacob Hacker and Diane Archer make the argument for the public option with negotiated rates. Medicare rates would be better, they say, but the public plan can still play a host of valuable roles, some of which people don't really...
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November 6, 2009; 10:00 AM ET |
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