Ezra Klein and Anthony Weiner ask the question regarding health care reform:
The exchanges are closed to 90 percent of the population for the same reason that the public option is weakened and limited only to the exchanges, and even then, limited to the states that want to offer it, at least in the Senate’s version. These rules exist for a simple reason: to stop people from fleeing employer-based insurance. Rep. Anthony Weiner, speaking at the New Republic’s heath-care reform panel this morning, is a bit confused.
What are we trying to protect when we’re trying to protect against the destabilization of a system we all agree isn’t working and that we think people are trying to leave?
We’re not debating health care reform here. We’re not interested in changing the system. How do you reform a system that 80 percent of Americans believe works effectively for them? Altering precepts for insurance companies in order to rework the entire system is not being discussed, and that means real reform is not on the table. For all of the bluster and parsing of words in Washington, we’re only talking about applying a thin layer of foundation to an acne breakout. Change you can believe in.
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