Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Kevin Drum and Ezra Klein make the case that President Obama's insistence on pursuing health care reform in 2009 was not a mistake. Specifically, they claim that there wasn't a real trade-off between the pursuit of reform and helping the economy.Their basic argument runs like this: The $787 billion stimulus had been approved at the beginning of the year, and job losses were decelerating sharply by the time health care was undertaken. Obama needed to do something else between February 2009 and March 2010; if he hadn't focused on health care, there was no way the Democratic...
Kevin Drum and Ezra Klein make the case that President Obama's insistence on pursuing health care reform in 2009 was not a mistake. Specifically, they claim that there wasn't a real trade-off between the pursuit of reform and helping the economy.Their basic argument runs like this: The $787 billion stimulus had been approved at the beginning of the year, and job losses were decelerating sharply by the time health care was undertaken. Obama needed to do something else between February 2009 and March 2010; if he hadn't focused on health care, there was no way the Democratic...
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