Ezra Klein got it wrong. The Blue Dogs didn’t extract “minor” concessions on the House health care reform bill. The damage is major.
By separating the public plan from the Medicare provider network and Medicare reimbursement rates the Blue Dogs have inserted a poison pill into the legislation. This means that the public plan will be hampered by the requirement to invent a provider network from scratch. These so called fiscal conservatives have been beating their chest about savings but by decoupling the public option from Medicare reimbursement rates, they have sided with corporate hospitals’ profit margins over the taxpayers.
Thank you Blue Dogs.
The good news is that the Progressive Dems have a flag down on the play and are calling it a deal breaker.
I’m not sure how this thing moves forward. Apparently Pelosi and Louise Slaughter bring together the committee chairs to reconcile the committee bills. But H.R. 3200 is DOA without the Prog Caucus. So something has to happen in August.
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