Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Unpromising political landscape for health policy

I don't see anything good coming from the current line-up of political forces and attitudes.

The Democrats are determined to pass something - anything - so long as they can claim a legislative victory. At this point, I believe the Left would pass a dog turd through Congress and call it 'Health Reform' so long as they can proclaim a Win for Obama.

The Republicans are no better. They're so focused on handing Obama a defeat, they will work tirelessly to sabotage anything the Democrats offered up, even if it really was good health policy.

Nobody seems really invested in crafting a good policy that actually addresses the problems in a realistic way. I don't see how that hard work is going to get done when nobody shows any interest in doing it.

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