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Sunday 30 August 2009

…most Americans think they already have a life preserver — either private insurance (they choose not to think about the fact that it could be snatched away from them, or turn out to be a fraud at the worst possible moment) or government insurance from Medicare, the VA, or Medicaid (which they don’t think of as government-run, because New Deal/Great society rhetoric is a dim memory, while the dominant Reagan/Murdoch/Limbaugh/Beck rhetoric tells them that all government social programs are evil; they know that’s true and yet they know their own health care system isn’t evil, so they just choose not to ponder the contradiction). If this discussion had started with a national Health Care for Dummies conversation — today, class, we’re going to explain where Medicare comes from: it comes from the government — maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess. But we were never going to start there, because we wonky Democrats always think Americans start with the knowledge base we take for granted. Republicans know better. That’s why they win. No More Mister Nice Blog

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