SocraticGadfly: Aug. 17 healthcare round-up

August 17, 2009

Aug. 17 healthcare round-up

The Obama White House now says HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “misspoke” when she said the public option wasn’t “essential.”

Misspoke? Deliberate trial balloon? Sacrificial lamb? All possibilities with this White House, which is about 25 percent Machiavellian and 75 percent befuddled on this issue, especially since another WH official says the media miscovered this.

WTF? It’s a talking heads show. No, she said what she said.

Good to see that Dallas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, a registered nurse, is among those saying keep it in on the public option.

Meanwhile, Paul Krugman carefully explains the three main options to do better than we are now.

At the same time, north of the border, the Canadian Medical Association wants to tweak, or more its country’s national health coverage.

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