Quote Originally Posted by Grace View Post
Susan Estrich was once a campaign manager for Michael Dukakis - which puts her out there on the left. She is a Professor in the USC Law School. She also writes a couple of columns each week.

Here is her take on the current health care reform -



source

She's one of my favorite talking heads!


Good article. It asks the basic 'consumer' questions.


There is no good reason for the gov't. to be so gun-ho about pushing the bil thru, I'd expect our 'reps' to question the wisdom of even thinking that the bill would be a 'cure all' -pun intended- for HCR.

First the costs have to be reigned in....start there and I think the people would be satisfied about any plan.

Showing someone 1k pages worth of paper and saying that "that is the answer !" is rather asinine and dangerous. The idea may be good, but the idea that you can reform an industry as large as the HC/Health insurance model is akin to trying to stop a hurricane.


About Hillary and her attempt to reform/introduce HCR.

The only reason she was not able to get things going is she was 'just' the wife of the prez. Had she any voice in politics then, and had any success in implementing her program, we probably would not be having this conversation.



Blue,

Just out of curiosity, how far is the closest JITB from you?