Diversionary tactics

Fri, 10/23/2009 - 8:33am — DCblogger

If it were really Medicare for Everybody we would just pass HR 676. Whatever they are talking about, it isn't everybody in, nobody out. Do we have a policy expert that can deconstruct this for us?

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It's just a rebranding, sayeth Clyburn

By lambert on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 9:40am

There's no policy aspect to it at all.

What it does do is make it easier for genuine reformers to call bullshit. I suspect that's why we're not hearing much about it -- even from "progressives."

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By CMike on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 11:58am

Check out the first 3:25 of Part 1 here.

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