Ezra is less sanguine about health care reform on the day after:
Even if the bill does a better job than CBO projects, health-care costs will still bankrupt us. This is one small step for cost, one giant leap for coverage. My great hope is that the bill makes the next steps easier. But there’s still no guarantee we’ll take them. And the debate and difficulty Congress had passing a bill that was too small and deeply compromised has left me very pessimistic about our system's capacity to make harder decisions. The danger is not that we can’t solve our problems, but that we won’t. And that’s the biggest risk of all.
There’s no constituency and little reward for tough choices in Washington. It breeds a town full of cowards. Our legislative branch is broken.
