Nov
4
2009
Health Care Reform and Dynamics of the Legislative Process
As the old saying goes, making laws is like making sausage: you don’t really want to see what goes into it. But there’s another way in which the two are similar: it’s hard to understand the process when you are only looking at one component at a time. This would seem to be the case for the path Congress and President Obama have been following in trying to enact major health care reform legislation. All of the jockeying, deal-making, and outside opining at every stage can make the process seem as if it involves periodic swings between certain death and inevitable victory...
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