Health Care Blogging: Ditch It or Deal?
Stats guy Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com says progressives who support health care reform should stay on board, despite losing the battle for a public option (etc.) in the Senate and even as Dr. Howard Dean, dean of the liberal reform advocates, pulled his support for the measure.
Nate being Nate, he’s got a chart to illuminate his point that the Senate measure would, with all its flaws, be a big improvement over the status quo:
Read Silver’s post about how he came up with his numbers; TNR’s Jonathon Cohn’s take on recent developments is here.
Read here about the screwball Senate, where one lawmaker can keep an entire nation on edge.
Can that cooling saucer of our democracy finish its work by Christmas-eve-eve? Don’t break out the egg nog just yet.