Today we're recapping what's happened this week in the debate over health care reform. During a meeting last Saturday, President Obama asked the American people to lower the temperature a little at health care town halls. So-called "death panels," health care co-ops, Republican options, and former DNC chair Dr. Howard Dean were all part of the national conversation, which was topped off with the President’s one-on-one with conservative radio show host Michael Smerconish on Thursday.
For a look at where the debate heads next, we are joined by Jonathan Cohn. He is the Senior editor at The New Republic and author of Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis -- and the People Who Pay the Price
"The analogy that serves best here is: Medicare. It's a version of Medicare for people who aren't over 65. Ask people over 65 what they think of Medicare? They like it a lot."
—Jonathan Cohn, senior editor at The New Republic, on how to simply explain "the public option"
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There is an ironic lesson that needs to be learned from the Clinton health care fiasco. If conservative (Blue Dog) Democrats block a bill, they will go down to defeat in the fall just as those who tried to protect themselves by voting against Clinton did. They will prove that on this important issue there is no difference between the Democrat and Republican candidate, so why vote for Republican lite. There fate is tied to the President. Sabotaging his policies, so he appears as a failure, will doom any chance they have of re-election.
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