The Baucus health care bill is out of committee, but now the real effort to pass it begins in earnest. Democrats have one huge enemy: public knowledge. The more the public knows about the bill, the less it likes it. Karl Rove makes a key point about the Baucus (and other health care bills) today:
“The problem for Mr. Obama is that the Baucus bill is being sold on the strengths of accounting tricks that make it appear it won’t add to the deficit.”
The bill won’t be fully functional until 2017–it will have had nearly a decade of Medicare cuts and tax hikes to finance it through its first few years. Apres that, the deluge. This is what the public needs to know. I am on the road and can’t link, but here is the link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107204574473372635087870.html