Comments on: Moment of Truth: Robert Kuttner on How We’re About to See Whether Obama Will Emerge as the Leader *We Thought We Were Voting For* http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5874 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: MaskedMarauder http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5874&cpage=1#comment-393520 MaskedMarauder Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:01:19 +0000 http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5874#comment-393520 I don't understand the mania for bipartisanship. The best you can hope for when you compromise with a lunatic is a half mad plan. I don’t understand the mania for bipartisanship. The best you can hope for when you compromise with a lunatic is a half mad plan.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5874&cpage=1#comment-392029 Aaron Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:07:20 +0000 http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5874#comment-392029 Yesterday on NPR a prof from Princeton made a couple of great points: 1) Selling insurance across state lines is a smokescreen. Insurance is cheaper in Utah because healthcare is cheaper in Utah. A Massachusetts resident buying insurance from a Utah company would pay more than a Utah resident because his healthcare would cost more. Different company, comparable cost. 2) Obama should set up a choose-your-own-adventure (my words, not his) series of carefully crafted questions to bring to the summit - rather than any speech. An example - in a family making $20-30K per year, how much should they pay out of pocket for healthcare including premiums? Republicans give him a number, he's ready to tell them the implications of that number for their ability to buy food and shelter. If they have no number, he calls them out as being unprepared to even talk about healthcare reform. They haven't don't their homework and are only playing a charade of governance. I like this plan. Yesterday on NPR a prof from Princeton made a couple of great points:

1) Selling insurance across state lines is a smokescreen. Insurance is cheaper in Utah because healthcare is cheaper in Utah. A Massachusetts resident buying insurance from a Utah company would pay more than a Utah resident because his healthcare would cost more. Different company, comparable cost.

2) Obama should set up a choose-your-own-adventure (my words, not his) series of carefully crafted questions to bring to the summit – rather than any speech. An example – in a family making $20-30K per year, how much should they pay out of pocket for healthcare including premiums? Republicans give him a number, he’s ready to tell them the implications of that number for their ability to buy food and shelter. If they have no number, he calls them out as being unprepared to even talk about healthcare reform. They haven’t don’t their homework and are only playing a charade of governance.

I like this plan.

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