Ethics

Health Care Reform Fantasies

By Ed Brayton

I've been having a good deal of fun mocking the ridiculous, hyperbolic and downright idiotic arguments the right wing has been making about healthcare reform, but I've not yet written anything about where I actually stand on the issue. And I'm still not going to in this post because, frankly, I just don't know enough about the issue to take a strong stand on it. But I do feel confident enough to say this much:

If you really think that whatever ends up passing as health care reform legislation is going to give coverage to the tens of millions of uninsured people AND preserve full choice of your own doctors and hospitals AND reduce total health care spending in this country while not also driving up the deficit....you're living in a fantasy world. It simply isn't going to happen.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).