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HEALTH INSURANCE

As usual, Nate Silver puts up a great summary of where the health debate stands.

Life After the Death of the Public Option

He includes both the material and political consequences of trying to get the public option through and also points out the "incrementalist" approach which would be to take what we can get now and do the next step later.

I am an incrementalist.

I favor several priorities. No caps on insurance. No preexisting conditions. Some form of mandatory insurance for universal coverage. Business coverage for employees or use of the co-op system.

These can all make it through the first time.

I read the liberal blogs. They are all doggedly for the public option or bust. Well, they could bust it but Silver thinks that they won't. There is nothing in it for them.

It is a tough fight but I do believe there is going to be a successful bill and that Obama will, as Bill Clinton predicts, get a healthy bounce from the passage of it. A lot of the slippage he is getting is from people who want health care reform now.

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