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Go Home Rising Health Care Costs Top Public Concern

THE PLANK JULY 24, 2009

Rising Health Care Costs Top Public Concern

BY JONATHAN CHAIT

Interesting tidbit at the bottom of this Wall Street Journal story about GOP efforts to portray themselves as interested in health care reform:

Resurgent Republic, a Web site that provides polling-based strategy for
Republicans, noted that "there is a caveat" for the party's new,
aggressive strategy. "Concern about rising health-care costs outstrips
every other economic concern today," including job losses, it said in a
recent analysis.

That seems important, and a fact that would complicate Republican efforts to demagogue "rationing" health care.

--Jonathan Chait

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The Republican temptation to demagogue on health care far outpoints any genuine public policy interest that some of their legislators might have.

- liberal reformer

July 24, 2009 at 4:15pm

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Interesting tidbit at the bottom of this Wall Street Journal story about GOP efforts to portray themselves

- Anonymous

July 24, 2009 at 5:18pm

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