Gruber may be especially effusive. But the Senate blueprint, which faces its first votes tonight, also is winning praise from other leading health reformers like Mark McClellan, the former director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services under George W. Bush and Len Nichols, health policy director at the centrist New America Foundation. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu - via Nicholas Kristof, Marc Ambinder
Apparently this is required reading in the White House, so it is interesting to see what they may be believing there. No mention of single payer, little on the public option, less on cuts to medicare, early retiree buy-in to medicare, allowing employees with crappy health care plans to buy into a public option. No mention of the cost surge when newly insured get coverage, paying for prayer healing, nor any prescription cost negotiating savings. No direct analysis, but rather quotes of persons deemed to be experts.
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