The Photo That Explains the Health Care Fight

| Tue Jul. 28, 2009 7:45 AM PDT

Today's New York Times includes a photograph that tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the health care fight going on in the Senate Finance committee. It's here. As Ezra Klein explains, you should be thinking about who is not in the photo.

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Seriously, whoever wrote the captions is on drugs

Grassley is one of the obstacles to getting a realistic solution to a public crisis. He's not a compromiser, he's compromised by being on the take from the health insurance industry.

Let's get real. In order to fix health care we need to remove it as a profit center. Grassley's cut from the insurance industry would have paid for health insurance for 190 families for a year.

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excellent link thanks!

excellent link thanks!

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