Clif Notes: Why the Baucus bill bites
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 19:23 Hey, don’t just take my word for it that the Senate bill should be given a failing grade. Let’s take a look at the opinions of a few folks who think about this stuff for a living, as posted on The NewYorkTimes:
Jacob S. Hacker is a professor of political science at Yale and the author of “The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream.”
To be successful, health care reform has to be constructed on three strong pillars: personal responsibility, shared responsibility and shared risk. Unfortunately, all three of these pillars are dangerously weak in Senator Baucus’s proposed legislation. In the Sisyphean search for a grand bipartisan deal that will not occur, Senator Baucus has produced a bad bill that will leave too many Americans without affordable quality coverage and do too little to ensure health security over the long term.
