Every expansion of the social safety net has been contentious. None kicked off without difficulties. The question is whether Democrats will be willing to wade back into the fight to address Obamacare’s woes — particularly the lack of cost controls and competition — while taking endless fire from Republicans, who’ve shown no interest in repairing health care.
As Mann sees it, Obamacare is but the first battle.
“Sometimes it takes something that looks God-awful to set things in motion for some steps that will eventually give us a better system,” he says. “To the right, it looks like communism, but to more rational observers, these are constrained, incremental changes. But they could add up to something quite nonincremental.”
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