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    The Heritage Think Tank's Battle on Health Care ... Again

    History doesn't repeat ???



    This is one of the first major salvos on the upcoming debate about the Obama health plan from Robert E. Moffit (bio), director of the Heritage Foundation's Center for Health Policy Studies.

    If folks don't recall, Moffit drafted the forty-one page 19,800+ word screed of Heritage Foundation's analysis of President Bill Clinton's plan to nationalize the U.S. health care system back in 1993. If you were to take the time and read both of Moffit's commentaries, you can't help but notice the similarities of criticism in his 1993 commentary and the present commentary below.

    MOFFIT: A high court of health

    Monday, January 12, 2009
    Washington Times

    "Details kill." That's Tom Daschle, President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of health and human services and the nation's new "health-care czar," explaining to the Associated Press why national health reform has failed in the past. Big, clumsy Clinton-style health reform bills, the size of a telephone book, read and analyzed by ordinary people - that, according to Mr. Daschle, led to fatal criticism.

    Translation: If we hadn't spelled out the specifics of what we really wanted, we could have gotten our schemes past the public without a lot of noisy and unpleasant dissent and safely enacted into law.

    It continues, ad nauseum,  at this link

    And ... I always enjoy having someone translate what their red-herrings mean that they bring up in their own commentary.

    ~OGD~
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