Health Care Reform: Sifting Through the Suboptimal Solutions
The fight over health care reform has proven just how broken our system is -- from the crippling influence of money on our politics to the misuse of the filibuster, which has taken away the power of the duly elected majority and given it to a handful of bought-and-paid-for senators. This disturbing and destructive state of affairs has created a country that is, in the words of Tom Friedman, "only able to produce 'suboptimal' responses to its biggest problems." And that's where we find ourselves on health care as we head towards the legislative end game. The big optimal solutions have all been gutted -- and we are left to pick through the patchwork of suboptimal ones. Here are the things that absolutely have to be included in any health care bill for it to deliver reform in more than name only.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics