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.Read More... More on Barack Obama
Senh: The article said Barack Obama should have started 2009 with financial reform and then tackle health care. In highsight, that's easy to say. What I found interesting is it suggested that Obama should have done those things in smaller chunks. Rather than doing a $787M stimulus, break it up into three quarter billion bits, so Americans and congress don't get sticker shock. Same with the health care reform. Try to pass the most important pieces first -- like taking out pre-existing conditions -- rather than doing the entire package at once. That sounds reasonable and practical.
