Healthcare redux: Sheldon’s smackdown, “Kill Bill” vol. 3, the legacy express
In case you missed it: Sen. Sheldon White House delivered a verbal assault against his Republican colleagues during the midnight healthcare debate Monday, saying a “day of reckoning” is coming for those who lied about the bill. Watch:
Meanwhile, the Daily Beast rounds up the latest arguments and counter-arguments over the bill. A sampling:
As the Senate gears up for the second of three 60-vote hurdles on Tuesday morning, many liberals, led by Jane Hamsher at FireDogLake, are clamoring: to kill the bill. Hamsher’s “Top 10 Reasons to Kill the Senate Health Care Bill” has been circulating, and at The Washington Post, Ezra Klein responds point by point. Hamsher, Klein points out, both criticizes for doing too little to control costs and then also takes aim at some of its cost-controlling measures. At the Wonk Room, meanwhile, a handy chart lays out what things will look like with and without reform.
At the WaPo, in a piece by Robert Samuelson, the phrase of the day is “legacy building,” as Samuelson accuses the president of pursuing healthcare reform for the purposes of stroking his own outsized ego (and says he’s going to be sorry). UPDATE: On second thought, never mind. The Samuelson piece sounded like a relatively credible, if a bit right wing, opinion piece, until he cited the insurance company-owned Lewin Group as the source for his predictions. So much for credibility. WaPo, what’s up? (The folks at Tapped take Samuelson down, but good.) If you’re surfing in the WaPo direction, better to stick with Ezra Klein, who offers a stinging, thorough rebuttal to Jane Hamsher’s “kill bill” idea.
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