{"id":460509,"date":"2010-03-22T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-3058322013170537110"},"modified":"2010-03-28T18:28:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T22:28:47","slug":"best-health-care-reform-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/460509","title":{"rendered":"Best health care reform commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for week&#8217;s end to write mine, but I&#8217;ll be working from these early commentaries:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2010\/03\/the-curious-triumph-of-romneycare-we-are-live-at-the-week.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal+%28Brad+DeLong%27s+Semi-Daily+Journal%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Economist Brad DeLong: The Curious Triumph of RomneyCare<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/03\/22\/obamacare\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CosmicVarianceBlog+%28Cosmic+Variance%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Physicist Sean Caroll: Obamacare | Cosmic Variance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/03\/22\/health-care-passage-thoughts\/\">Science fiction author John Scalzi: Health Care Passage Thoughts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2010\/03\/21\/us\/health-care-reform.html#\">NYT Infographic: How the Health Care Overhaul Could Affect You<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>I think it&#8217;s pretty damned awesome that the three* most intelligent commentaries I&#8217;ve read were written by amateur blog-only journalists. (Ok, so Sean is probably paid for his science blog). <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Incidentally, I expect my &#8220;taxes&#8221; will rise to pay for this. More on why, how and where the quotes come from in a later post. We&#8217;re good with that.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>PS. <a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2010\/03\/romneycare-passage-aftermath.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal+%28Brad+DeLong%27s+Semi-Daily+Journal%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">DeLong: RomneyCare Passage Aftermath &#8211; support Betsy Markey<\/a> (for her courage)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>* I wrote &#8220;four&#8221; originally but I moved one to the PS and didn&#8217;t decrement!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2010\/0321\/Health-care-reform-bill-101-Who-will-pay-for-reform\">The Christian Science Monitor has a detailed breakdown<\/a>. Well done.<\/div>\n<div><b>Update 3\/24\/2010<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/24\/business\/24leonhardt.html#\">Leonhardt focuses on the distributive nature<\/a>. This is why the GOP is enraged.<\/div>\n<div><b>Update 3\/24\/2010b<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/24\/wrapping-your-head-around-the-health-bill\/\">Uwe Reinhardt points to the readable references<\/a>. He discretely but clearly points out the cost will be higher than the CBO score &#8212; but much less than the Bush Part D boondoggle.<\/div>\n<div><b>Update 3\/28\/2010<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2010\/03\/mark-thoma-health-care-reform-and-labor-mobility.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal+%28Brad+DeLong%27s+Semi-Daily+Journal%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">HCR and labor motility<\/a><\/div>\n<p><small><\/small><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-3058322013170537110?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for week&#8217;s end to write mine, but I&#8217;ll be working from these early commentaries: Economist Brad DeLong: The Curious Triumph of RomneyCare Physicist Sean Caroll: Obamacare | Cosmic Variance Science fiction author John Scalzi: Health Care Passage Thoughts NYT Infographic: How the Health Care Overhaul Could Affect You I think it&#8217;s pretty damned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}