Hi everyone - welcome to the Foundations of HPM class blog. You are welcome to review the past two years of posts (last one was early Dec 2009) and begin your own posting. Feel free to cite articles of interest, continue discussions from this class or others, ask questions, comment on each other's posts, etc
To kick it all off, as a follow up to last week's class, here is article from today's NYT (9/21/10) on what Republicans are likely to do to reform law if they get the opportunity http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/health/policy/21repeal.html?_r=1&hpw
Kim
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With constituents still unsure about what health reform means to them, it seems that conservatives will have addtional fuel to the fire for their plans to keep health reform from coming to fruition
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39294608/ns/health-health_care
For those that are in Ann Keller’s Policy Decision class (and were present for today’s lecture on morality in politics):
So much of the Republican response described in the NYT article is clearly motivated by “intrinsic morality” (as opposed to pragmatism). It seems the right wing has been grasping for any reasons they can find to shoot down every provision in the bill. While some of these reasons may be pragmatic (like the financial burden for small businesses), others are not (like restoring funding to Medicare managed care plans which are already over-compensated).
To me, it is evident Republican leaders are mainly interested in repealing the “idea” of health reform—a reaction based in those individualist American values we all know and love.
Dana – given your article about the lack of public knowledge about the bill, it is a little scary to think how easy it may be for Republicans to get what they want… why would you fight for something you don’t even understand in the first place?
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