Heath Care Revenant

Appearances to the contrary, this Congress’s health-care reform bill is buried but not yet dead, reports the Los Angeles Times . Democratic leaders “are meeting almost daily to plot legislative moves while gently persuading skittish rank-and-file lawmakers to back a sweeping bill.”

Indeed, “In a 24-hour news cycle, with the Internet and bloggers and cable news, sometimes a lot more can be accomplished, especially with healthcare, when it happens behind closed doors,” said Drew Altman, a healthcare policy expert who heads the nonprofit Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.”

As National Review notes , can you imagine the outcry if, say, two years, a major conservative organization had pronounced such an anti-democratic sentiment?

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