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Undone by Overreach   [Grace-Marie Turner]

Majority Leader Harry Reid is having a difficult time piecing together a health-reform bill that will get 60 votes in the Senate because of his overreach in trying to create a health-care “system” that would be run out of Washington.We don’t have a health-care system now, but rather countless independent programs and entities. In trying to assemble them into a system, all of the parts must interlock. Pull out one and several others collapse — threatening to tear apart the entire overhaul....]]> Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Last updated: 3:50 amJuly 30, 2009 Posted: 2:07 amJuly 30, 2009

HOUSE Democrats are playing a game of Whack-a-Mole as they try to devise a health-reform bill to reengineer one-sixth of our economy, but the latest "agreement" announced Wednesday makes no progress in repairing the deeply flawed legislation.

Dissident "Blue Dog" Democrats on the key House Energy and Commerce Committee had been holding the bill hostage to a list of a dozen demands, saying it costs too much and fails to address systemic problems in the nation's ailing health-care sector.

But yesterday, after days of negotiations with congressional and White House leaders, a spokesman for the group,...]]> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500