Here's Why Republicans Will Never Reform Health Care

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http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-republicans-will-never-reform-health-care-2013-12



Philip Klein writes that Obamacare will get blamed for all sorts of problems in the American health care system, even problems that would have existed with or without the law:

Given that the law was sold as a way to fix a broken health care system, rightly or wrongly, the law is going to be blamed for any persistent problems. It’s impossible for Americans to sort out whether a given change took place as a result of the law or whether it would have happened anyway. If they don’t like a change to their health care situation that occurred after a giant new law went into effect, they’re going to blame that giant new law.

If I were a vulnerable Democrat incumbent in 2014, I wouldn’t want to pin my re-election hopes on being able to convince angry voters that changes that they hate would have happened with or without the health care law. “Correlation doesn’t equal causation” is not exactly a winning campaign slogan.

Klein is right. And his analysis explains why Republicans have had the same health policy strategy for 20 years: Nominally favoring big fixes to our health care system but not enacting them.



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[JoePhilly]

1. Wrong. There is a key sentence in this that starts with the word "IF".

And its that sentence that will cause this to all be wrong.

I think the Business Insider would like to see Dems not fight back so that the GOP attacks can stand alone with no one refuting them.