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President Barack Obama listens to a question during the Organizing for America National Health Care Forum at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Really. President Obama's healthcare reform proposal ranks highly among least understood policy proposals in current politics. What follows is a concise and easy to understand explanation of the popular but often muddled "public option" that is contained in national legislation and that forms the centerpiece of President Obama's proposal. This one is great for cocktail parties and local bars, because it's so easy to explain.
The speaker is Chris Hayes, DC editor of The Nation magazine, and the setting is the Netroots Nation blogger/media conference last weekend. Healthcare reform was very much a dominant piece of discussion there, as it is around the country.
After the conference, Nicholas Beaudrot of Donkeylicious transformed Hayes' flowchart-gesturing and converted it into an easy to read and share flowchart about the public option. Click on the image to enlarge it.
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If bees had knees, this chart would be the knees of those bees. It is the bees knees.
yes, it is the knees of the wonderful bees. that's precisely what i thought when i saw the chart (and when i heard chris hayes speak).
The chart is awesome!
The sad thing is
the noise machine doesn't do very well
at ingesting straight forward facts.
where's the fearmonger in that?
I know!
They left off the square for death panels and the other square for rationing care!
how sneaky of them to leave those off :>
My 3 rationings are very expensive to keep healthy, but my Mahogany death panels are doing just fine, thank you.
If it's going to save us money, why is it costing us $1 trillion over 10 years?