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It's seemed to me that the Obama administration has made a mistake in the framing of the health care issue: 'We'll raise your taxes and in exchange we're going to cut your treatments.' I mean, how could that not have widespread appeal? It's pain/pain! ... This mistake has been replicated, perhaps, in the subsidiary debate over the "public option." I tried to make that argument on bloggingheads yesterday, and boy did I not realize I was getting so overexcited. Don't play it at 1.4X or you'll be calling for a straitjacket. ... Key teaser suggestion: Health care reform is not really about covering the uninsured, and it's not about controlling cost, it's about ... something left-wingers used to understand, before they got Orszombified! ... 12:35 A.M.
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