Comments on: KLEIN STILL CLUELESS ON REFORM http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/01/22/klein-still-clueless-on-reform/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:14:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: spike http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/01/22/klein-still-clueless-on-reform/#comment-21104 spike Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:11:37 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/01/22/klein-still-clueless-on-reform/#comment-21104 I didn't say we were in a recession. I said that IF we were to be in one, a state system that can't operate at a loss would implode. I didn’t say we were in a recession. I said that IF we were to be in one, a state system that can’t operate at a loss would implode.

]]> By: Catron http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/01/22/klein-still-clueless-on-reform/#comment-21077 Catron Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:17:08 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/01/22/klein-still-clueless-on-reform/#comment-21077 “The scope of health care is such that state solutions are very difficult to pull off ... Oregon isn’t very relevant." Oh, but it is. Oregon is dominated by faux-progressives. If that electorate won’t buy the “universal” health care scam, nobody will. “Expenditures are going to be higher in a recession when government revenues are also lower.” We’re not in a recession, Spike. A recession occurs when there are two consecutive quarters of negative growth. We haven’t even had one. Here’s <a href="http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/12/28/stop-lying-about-the-economy-please/" rel="nofollow">more</a> on that Lefty canard. “The scope of health care is such that state solutions are very difficult to pull off … Oregon isn’t very relevant.”

Oh, but it is. Oregon is dominated by faux-progressives. If that electorate won’t buy the “universal” health care scam, nobody will.

“Expenditures are going to be higher in a recession when government revenues are also lower.”

We’re not in a recession, Spike. A recession occurs when there are two consecutive quarters of negative growth. We haven’t even had one. Here’s more on that Lefty canard.

]]> By: spike http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/01/22/klein-still-clueless-on-reform/#comment-21071 spike Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:45:41 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/01/22/klein-still-clueless-on-reform/#comment-21071 The reason SCHIP failed is because of a President who doesn't care about his constituents. If a Democrat were President right now, the SCHIP expansion would easily have passed. Ezra Klein is assuming that we'll have a Democratic President in 2009, and that the Democrats will probably pick up some seats in Congress. Besides that, the scope of health care is such that state solutions are very difficult to pull off (because states can't run deficits and any health systems expenditures are going to be higher in a recession when governmnet revenues are also lower) so a federal solution is needed. So bringing up failure in Oregon isn't very relevant. The reason SCHIP failed is because of a President who doesn’t care about his constituents. If a Democrat were President right now, the SCHIP expansion would easily have passed. Ezra Klein is assuming that we’ll have a Democratic President in 2009, and that the Democrats will probably pick up some seats in Congress. Besides that, the scope of health care is such that state solutions are very difficult to pull off (because states can’t run deficits and any health systems expenditures are going to be higher in a recession when governmnet revenues are also lower) so a federal solution is needed. So bringing up failure in Oregon isn’t very relevant.

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