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...what Obama is trying to do. Yet Obama wondered whether there might be some lessons for him in that earlier President's achievement. So a couple of weeks ago, his health czar, Nancy-Ann DeParle, delivered to him a memo outlining how Lyndon B. Johnson got Medicare and Medicaid passed...
...that Congress is more splintered. I think each member of Congress is a little more independent from party than they might have been in the past. I think the nature of the Republican opposition has changed. Today it's much more concentrated on the conservative end. And Medicare and Medicaid had been ideas first introduced by JFK, and his assassination obviously provided enormous emotional push that is different from today...
...just take one example, and that is how do you pay for the uninsured who would be receiving some help, some subsidies, through this plan? Very early we identified over $500 billion from Medicare and Medicaid savings, such as the elimination of all the subsidies for Medicare Advantage, that would cover up to two-thirds of the cost of covering the uninsured...
...this off. In some ways I think it's just made it more urgent for some of the reasons you just said: A lot more people are losing their jobs, are vulnerable to losing their health care; our deficits are even bigger, which means the load on Medicare and Medicaid is just going to get worse. If we don't do this now we are going to be in a world of hurt later...
...There are other thorny issues. The House, for example, envisions giving insurance to about 10 million currently uninsured by broadening the guidelines of Medicaid, the state/federal program for the poor. The problem is that many governors of already cash-strapped states are voicing their opposition to this proposal; while the current bill says Washington would foot the bill for these new Medicaid enrollees, states that are having a hard enough time as it is paying their share of the program are wary of what might happen several years from now. At the same time, Blue Dogs in the House...