The Health Care Bill Dies?

The reason a real health-care bill is not going to get passed is simple: because nobody in Washington really wants it. There is insufficient political will to get it done. It doesn’t matter that it’s an urgent national calamity, that it is plainly obvious to anyone with an IQ over 8 that our system could not possibly be worse and needs to be fixed very soon, and that, moreover, the only people opposing a real reform bill are a pitifully small number of ... Full Story »

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Taibbi makes a scathing evaluation of the failure of democrats to pass a reform of health care to a systemic lack of will to do so.

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