Watching MSNBC on selection day for 2016. My guess is the legacy of Bush and our current military adventurism will exclude us from consideration.
I would like to be wrong. I love Chicago.
Category: msnbc
One thing I will miss when I move back to San Jose is Philadelphia politics. Because of its proximity to DC, and the fact that it is a much more competitive state than California, make it a vastly more interesting place to watch politics.
Take for example the issue advocacy ads. The one running on MSNBC right now is one from Heath Care For America Now. The ad, which strikes me as overtly political, is actually from a 501c4 issue advocacy organization, the Health Care Action Network. Their key tag line is:
If Insurance Companies Win, You Lose.
Interestingly, no talk about a public option. They do not single out any politician or piece of legislation, but say “Call Congress….”.
Its a pretty good site. Its media rich, which makes it slow on my netbook, and they are using Google Analytics, which shows some sophistication.
MSNBC is saying its Public Option Day.
Interesting fact, only Baseball and Healthcare have exemptions from the Sherman Anti-Trust act.
In my view we need a mild public option, like support for Kaiser-like co-ops.
We need to take an incremental approach. It seems to me that this year’s healthcare solution should take the following form:
1. Eliminate pre-existing condition rejection
2. Some tort reform.
3. Either eliminate monopoly control in states where monopolies exist, or:
4. Allow healthcare companies to act nationally (with a limit on the martket concetration).
Key point being this is a big hard problem, and democracies can not often handle radical change without a non-existential threat.