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To: Brumar89 who wrote (490687)	6/26/2009 12:24:26 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572644

Color Me Perplexed I stumbled across this Ed Morrissey post a few moments ago, and I'm a bit puzzled as to the best response. The problem is that I don't have the data to answer an important question: Is Ed being disingenuous, or is he terribly confused by the health reform principles Barack Obama has articulated? It's hard to say. There's really no reason to think Ed Morrissey actually believes Obama is proposing a health system in which people are legally barred from purchasing care beyond what their insurers would provide. Ed's a smart guy. He follows politics. And he certainly doesn't offer any evidence for such a view. But his post takes it as a given that that is in fact what Obama is proposing. I'm also not sure what to say about a post that argues that the problem with Obama's health-care plan is that it would force low-income Americans to "make sacrifices that wealthier, more powerful people — like the president himself — wouldn’t face." I could imagine a single-payer supporter making that argument. But someone who advocates that we "boost the private sector" in health care? The same private sector, I imagine, in which having more money buys you more things? Honestly, it's like these people live on a different planet. voices.washingtonpost.com