Health Insurance Reform

One of the things that is true about the discussion about this reform effort is that too few people really understand what is currently in the bills drafted. Part of that is because we get distracted by the misinformation about death panels, government taking over medical care and the other litany of lies that fired up the teabaggers over the last month.

While conservatives are busily abandoning the moral imperative of the 8th Commandment (and doing so in a pretty ugly way), T.R. Reid provides a useful corrective in countering the most prevalent of the fear and loathing being manufactured based upon the health care systems in other countries.

A Republican Iowan tells Sen Grassley that Grassley's constituents want a Public Option. This is very good on many levels and this ad will be running in multiple Iowa markets and DC.

Congressman Waxman's Energy and Commerce Committee has complied a district by district assessment of the impact of HR 3200, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. For Delaware (pdf):

Geez, ya think? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWGz7QoKIek[/youtube]

Ezra Klein seems to think so. As long as we're talking strategy, it's also worth saying a bit about how these pieces fit together in the legislative process. There are…