The Democrats' secret health care plan

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Surgical Prep by Cohn. The Democrats' secret health care plan.

November 19, 2008

If you believe what the pundits are saying, enacting universal health

insurance in the next year won't be difficult: It will be impossible.

As the argument goes, it would cost too much money, antagonize too

many interest groups, and--given the difficulty of finding 60 votes in

the Senate--require too much raw political muscle. Even before Barack

Obama won the election, allies were advising him to stay far away from

major health care legislation, lest he fail as miserably as Bill

Clinton did when he famously tried for universal coverage back in

1994. As one anonymous Democratic senator recently told New York

magazine, " Health care is a quagmire. " ...

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