MICHAEL Kinsley (Time magazine) was the first to say it on the Left. M. Stanton Evans (Human Events) was the first to say it on the Right. They both claim that the health legislation making its way through Congress looks like managed competition in Republican clothing. Specifically, the GOP plan for Medicare—and, using the states as proxies, the GOP plan for Medicaid—is essentially the same plan the Clintons tried to impose on all Americans last year. Indeed, the two approaches are similar enough to be potentially embarrassing to people in both parties—which may explain why no one on the Hill or in the White House has been making the comparison.
Clearly, congressional Democrats are hypocrites if they supported the Clinton plan last year but criticize Republicans this year for pushing the elderly into HMOs, where they will not have free choice of doctors. The Hillary team, after all, wanted to push us all into HMOs.
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