The Peanut Gallery on Healthcare Reform

This morning the Washington Post features a round-up of opinion on the progress of healthcare reform in the Senate from a group of political notables including Mack McLarty (chief of staff under Bill Clinton), Michael O. Leavitt (Secretary of HHS under George W. Bush), Al From (founder of the DLC), and Karl Rove (political advisor to George W. Bush), among others. I won’t excerpt anything of their comments—you can read them for yourselves.

Where they stand largely depends on where they sit but there is one thing that they have in common: not one of them has a good thing to say about the Medicare buy-in proposal or, indeed, any proposal to expand the Medicare system whether it be “Medicare for all” or anything else.

That sounds alarmingly as though that feature will be in the bill as passed.

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