Saturday, July 18, 2009

Isn't it a wonder

That, as Paul Krugman points out, the 6 right wing Senators who sent a letter to the White House asking that health care reform be delayed so the insurance industry can kill it, did so expressing fiscal concerns that were nowhere evident in previous years.
What’s especially galling is the hypocrisy of their claimed reason for delaying progress — concern about the fiscal burden. After all, in the past most of them have shown no concern at all for the nation’s long-term fiscal outlook.

Case in point: the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, which denied Medicare the right to bargain for lower drug prices, locked in overpayments to private insurance companies, and did nothing, nothing at all, to pay for its proposed outlays. How many of these six self-proclaimed defenders of solvency voted no on the crucial procedural vote? One. (Joe Lieberman, to my surprise.)

And let’s not forget that Ben Nelson, who appears to be the ringleader, has fought tooth and nail against competition from a public option — which would almost certainly save a significant amount of money, as well as providing much-needed competition.
They say you should dance with the one that brought you. In this case it is dancing with the one that bought you.

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