What 'Government Takeover'?

newsweek.com — There have been lots of absurdities in the debate — such as it is — about health care reform. There's the hypocrisy of people dependent on government-run health care complaining about government-run health care. And now comes the Republican canard that the current health care reform proposal constitutes a government takeover of one-sixth of the economy. First, the proposed health care reform does not take over the system in any sense. Much to the chagrin of progressives, the bills under consideration don't contain a public option and don't provide for a single payer. In fact, they provide subsidies for millions of people to purchase private insurance. Second, such statements reveal how pathetically little many of our policymakers and pundits understand American health care spending.

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