What we’re working on for tomorrow:
Congress should not be trying to rush health care reform through this summer. As Rep. Adam Smith told us yesterday, a plan that would fall apart before passage upon too much scrutiny could be junked in a hurry after passage because of public backlash. That’s happened before: in Washington state in 1994 and with the Medicare catastrophic plan in 1988.
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