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Here are ten pieces of conventional wisdom about health care reform that I think are wrong.

This page contains the most recent version of my list of “things you should know about the Kennedy-Dodd health care bill,” interspersed with parallel observations about the leaked outline of the House Democrats’ health care bill.
I will post each time I update this page, so you can track it incrementally.  If you bookmark this page, [...]

Yesterday I posted and described the draft Kennedy-Dodd health care bill.  Today I would like to do the same for an outline produced by House Democrats.
Here is a three-page outline of “Key Features of the Tri-Committee Health Reform Draft Proposal in the House of Representatives,” dated yesterday (June 8, 2009).

Each year Congress considers the “defense authorization bill”.  This bill gives the U.S. military its legal authorities.
The House passed this bill last Thursday.  One provision in the bill would attempt to limit the President’s ability to ignore certain earmarks in the report language that accompanied the bill.  This is an important moment in the debate [...]

We expect the House to vote on the Farm Bill conference report today.  The President will veto this bill.  Here is the President’s statement on the bill.
The final legislative language for the conference report was released Tuesday morning.
Hint:  If you want to find the really bad stuff in a big bill, always start at the [...]