TNR: Why the health care bill is the greatest social achievement of our time.

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Why the health care bill is the greatest social achievement of our time.

At some level, it is possible to understand the roots of liberal frustration. The machinery of Congress has ground away at the health care bill, as it does to almost any bill. But at a broader level, the liberal mood is insane. What has emerged from that machinery is not merely “better than nothing” or “a good start.” It is the most significant American legislative triumph in at least four decades. Why can so few people see that?

- Jonathan Chait

For his full reasoning click HERE.

Thanks for the tip to James Fallows. Embarrassing to admit, but James Fallows only grabbed my attention about a year ago. Better late than never. It was his analysis of the Democratic primary debates in The Atlantic that got my attention. Then I found his blog - and his observations during the last of this three years in China and I was hooked. No regrets.