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16 Sep 2009 02:06 pm
After Baucus
David Corn makes a useful point:
With the Baucus plan, a family of four making $66,000 would have to
pay $700 a month for government-mandated health insurance coverage.
That's more than many people at that income level are used to paying
now for whatever health care coverage they have. For a good number of
households, this could be a rather weighty obligation.
Is there not a good argument to be made now that Obama, having failed to win any serious Republican support, should give his party what it wants: a public option or, at the very least, more generous subsidies for the middle classes this bill is designed to help? The worst outcome would be a bill that is largely unsupported on the left, reviled by the Beck right and yet too cheap to help the people it is trying to help. If the GOP insists on total opposition - and it is - Obama could consider responding by adjusting the bill to please its actual supporters. There is more to come on this long and winding road.
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