Assigned Reading

Obama liked one health care article so much, he (or Rahm Emmanuel ) apparently ordered all White House staffers to read it over the weekend. It’s an Atlantic blog post by Ronald Brownstein, who reports that the Senate bill does everything mortally possible to lower the overall cost of American medical care over the next several years. “The bottom line,” says another expert, “is the legislation is sending a signal that business as usual [in the medical system] is going to end.”

Cost control matters more than anything, even a public option, because, as Brownstein writes, “The public competitor to private insurance companies championed by the Left would affect who writes the checks in the medical system, but not what the checks are written to pay for.”

Interessant. Now if someone can only order Joe Lieberman to read it.

     posted 25 November 2009 by Michael Scott Moore