kf Gets Excitable

kf Gets Excitable

kf Gets Excitable

A mostly political weblog.
July 4 2009 3:27 AM

kf Gets Excitable

It's seemed to me that the Obama administration has made a mistake in the framing of the health care issue: 'We'll raise your taxes and in exchange we're going to cut your treatments.' I mean, how could that not have widespread appeal? It's pain/pain! ... This mistake has been replicated, perhaps, in the subsidiary debate over the "public option."  I tried to make that argument on bloggingheads  yesterday, and boy did I not realize I was getting so overexcited .  Don't play it at 1.4X or you'll be calling for a straitjacket. ...  Key teaser suggestion: Health care reform is not really about covering the uninsured, and it's not about controlling cost , it's about ... something left-wingers used to understand, before they got Orszombified! ... 12:35 A.M.

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