Thanks to Ezra for reminding us that this health care reform debate, despite some recent progress, is still about preserving the employer-based health care system. And that system is terrible. That’s one reason that I’ve been focused more on process than policy. I can’t get excited about the reform itself, although it would accomplish many fine things. But figuring out how to pass a piece of legislation like this through our conservative Congress? That, I find interesting.
And how many Democrats would have to be in the Senate before it wasn’t conservative anymore? Would seventy do it? I think it probably would.
