tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post6636917300172952911..comments2024-03-10T13:59:19.230-04:00Comments on xpostfactoid: David Frum raises a crucial non-issue for DemocratsAndrew Sprunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17601269968798865106noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-9592768252335930612013-04-03T03:44:31.065-04:002013-04-03T03:44:31.065-04:00If there's one thing we have learned from Obam...If there's one thing we have learned from Obamacare it is how fantastically difficult health care reform is to get through even a heavily Democratic Congress. In 2009-10 it barely passed--and even this was possible only because Democrats had learned the lesson from 1994 that failing to pass it would not save them.<br />So I would not be too harsh about the failure of Hillarycare in 1993-4. The votes weren't there for single-payer, and in 1993-4 a lot of liberals would not support an individual mandate (and the Republicans who pretended to support it as an alternative to Hillarycare would have come out against it as soon as the administration came out in favor of it).<br /><br />She did make some mistakes in her 2008 campaign but so did Obama--that's one reason why the campaign for the nomination lasted so long.<br /><br />Anyway, as long as polls show Hillary beating Rubio and Jeb Bush by double digits in Florida, I want her to run. Winning is more important than the real but relatively small differences in policy between the most plausible Democratic candidates.<br />David Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09260587086663631888noreply@blogger.com