Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal goes deep in the tank for Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley in a partisan attempt to establish his “bipartisanship” on healthcare issues.
First, he hasn’t been bipartisan on national healthcare from the start. By ruling out any single-payer plan’s acceptability from the get-go, he said he was going to be partisan about certain issues.
As for his Twittering skills, Strassel leaves out the hiliarious “hammer” Tweet. (Which, given his blanket opposition to single-payer, could be a self-hoisting petard anyway, as to who sees everything as a hammer.)
If Grassley really wants to be “bipartisan,” he can discuss the details of a government-payer system and details of how to structure funding. But, for those of us to the left of Obama, let alone Grassley, a single-payer option IS a cost reducer.
And, with the AMA on board for the House bill, the “bipartisanship goalposts” have now been moved, anyway.
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