H/T to Ezra Klein for pointing me to this story on Phil Ellis. Dr. Ellis is in charge of the Congressional Budget Office's health insurance reform team. In other words, his office is charged with scoring the varying reform packages floating around Capitol Hill. In other words, if his office deems a plan too expensive, it is doomed; if it's economically feasible - according to him, plans can survive to fight another day.
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A friendly reminder to my fellow Catholics:
When Jesus healed the sick he did not make exceptions for any "preexisting conditions". Just a thought.
I don't know what kind of health care reform will come out of this session, but I strongly suspect it won't be much. There is, however a silver lining behind this very dark cloud. I am reminded of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Don't be embarrassed if you've never heard of it, there really isn't a hell of a lot to remember about it; a mere pittance, really - a scrap of leftovers tossed out to "American Negros" (in the parlance of the age) in order to appease them. But it made the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - the one we remember - all-the-more easier seven years later.
We'll live to fight another day.
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