Hoisted from Comments: “Tom” on the Absence of Right-Wing Health Care Reform Policies
: Hoisted from the Internet from One Year Ago:
Re: “Automatically signing people up for low-cost default insurance”
Yet another instance of conservatives proposing ideas based purely on how they sound as slogans, and purely as a moving the bar trick: it is not intended as a replacement, only to sound like a plausible replacement, but only until when what it is proposed to replace is no longer in effect….
Yesterday James Capretta, today Megan McArdle trot out supposedly more palatable alternatives to Obamacare that are in fact rephrased versions of single payer or a public option. Why? Because there is no room to the right of Obamacare, except for nothing. That is why the Republican agenda sloganized as ‘repeal and replace’ amounts in practice to ‘repeal.’