Public Option? What Public Option?
Last week in the comments, E.D. noted that the more liberal and Canuck of the League’s contributors hasn’t offered much in the way of analysis around the current red hot health care debate. Earlier, I offered my own sense of bafflement over the inability for American health care debaters to have a realistic discussion about reform that actually looks at a single payer system in something approaching sensible terms and noted how many of the tropes involved in that subsection of the debate strike simply incongruous postures vis-a-vis my own life experience.And look, it’s just hard to sit down with the relatively sparse amount of free time that one has at one’s disposal and look through the particulars of the HR3200 v. Wyden-Bennet plans when neither plan’s options will be available to me.
But the broader context of the debate is something I’ve found pretty interesting to follow and in doing so I’ve noted how much the ontology of that context strikes me as largely contrived — and thereby leads to a fairly contrived debate.
Take for example the screaming dissidents of the proposed Obamacare reforms. [Read more →]
August 11, 2009 6 Comments
