Whoopie-Kewl! Michael Hoover's back -- after a VERY long absence -- or at least a very long period of silence on the list. Welcome back!
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>Michael Hoover wrote:
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>But I think that's the wrong lesson. The Clinton plan
>actually preserved a big role for private insurers;
>the industry attacked it all the same. And the plan's
>complexity, which was largely a result of attempts to
>placate interest groups, made it hard to sell to the
>public. So I would argue that good economics is also
>good politics: reformers will do best with a
>straightforward single-payer plan, which offers
>maximum savings and, unlike the Clinton plan, can
>easily be explained....."
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