{"id":191170,"date":"2009-09-16T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/16\/the-baucus-bill-is-too-lame-for-ezra-klein\/"},"modified":"2009-09-16T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T00:26:00","slug":"the-baucus-bill-is-too-lame-for-ezra-klein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/16\/the-baucus-bill-is-too-lame-for-ezra-klein\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baucus Bill is too Lame for Ezra Klein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t followed Ezra Klein, he got hired as a blogger by the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span>, and since then, he&#8217;s done his level best to show that he&#8217;s one of the Beltway Kule Kidz, repeatedly posting about how it&#8217;s only those DFH&#8217;s<sup>*<\/sup> who care about the public option.<sup>\u2020<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Well, after all this time, Mr. Klein finally looks at the product of his best bud Max Baucus, and <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2009\/09\/the_baucus_bill_the_neutered_c.html\">even he sees that it is completely inadequate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The coops are divided up state by state.<\/li>\n<li>They cannot cooperate for, or write policies for, large companies.<\/li>\n<li>They have to bargain with providers individually, so they cannot set payment standards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, for all of his show of bipartisanship, he has f<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125310546537515699.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us\">ailed to secure the support of a single Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can we run a primary against him, please?<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;\" >D<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">irty <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;\" >F<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">%$#ing <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;\" >H<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">ippies<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">FWIW, they aren&#8217;t DFH&#8217;s, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;\" >I am<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">.  I don&#8217;t just want a public option, or single payer, I want a National Health Service (NHS), because I think that the system is too broken to allow for any potential point of entry for the health insurers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t followed Ezra Klein, he got hired as a blogger by the Washington Post, and since then, he&#8217;s done his level best to show that he&#8217;s one of the Beltway Kule Kidz, repeatedly posting about how it&#8217;s only those DFH&#8217;s* who care about the public option.\u2020 Well, after all this time, Mr. Klein &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1046,1020,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-healthcare","category-legislation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}