I Disagree With Krugman
Paul Krugman today:
"So, House Democrats have a choice: do they pass the Senate bill, or do they go back to the drawing board and spend several months cobbling together a plan that’s worse in almost every dimension, generating thousands of stories about hapless Democrats — and almost surely find that Senate Republicans block the new plan, too."
No, Paul. There is a third alternative. They can spend several minutes "cobbling together" a plan which involves letting anyone buy in to Medicare. They can then pass it by reconciliation, forgetting about Nelson, Lincoln, Lieberman and the other couple of worthless pseudo-Democrats, and stripping them of their self-awarded power to control the destiny of the country, and by the way, teaching the Republicans a lesson about what happens when you play hardball.
"So, House Democrats have a choice: do they pass the Senate bill, or do they go back to the drawing board and spend several months cobbling together a plan that’s worse in almost every dimension, generating thousands of stories about hapless Democrats — and almost surely find that Senate Republicans block the new plan, too."
No, Paul. There is a third alternative. They can spend several minutes "cobbling together" a plan which involves letting anyone buy in to Medicare. They can then pass it by reconciliation, forgetting about Nelson, Lincoln, Lieberman and the other couple of worthless pseudo-Democrats, and stripping them of their self-awarded power to control the destiny of the country, and by the way, teaching the Republicans a lesson about what happens when you play hardball.
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Please do explain your understanding of it because based on your post, you don't understand it entirely.
Do you remember the period of 2000-2006, when Republicans from the House and Senate got together and rewrote passed legislation in major ways, often including material utterly beyond the scope of the original bills, in locked rooms with absolutely no Democratic participation allowed?
Okay for the Republicans, huh? What I am advocating falls considerably short of what became standard practice for them to get their way during the Bush Administration.