Karen Tumulty argues that incremental health care reform won't work:
[Say] you pass a bill that makes it impossible for the insurance companies to discriminate against sicker and older people. "You're going to make it expensive for young people to get insurance, especially with the inefficient individual insurance market we have today," says Starr. "Basically, health insurance becomes just a very bad deal for young people." And without healthy people in the pool of those covered, it also becomes unaffordable for sick people, too.
Chait has more along the same lines, and Douthat thinks Obama should have tried for Medicare expansion from the start.
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