“ Congressmen are looking to sell their voters for the highest ‘price’ possible and they know Obama really wants, and indeed needs, to win a health care victory. As health care reform ‘falls apart,’ these Congressmen face the risk that they will get nothing for those votes. Suddenly their cartel falls apart and they lower the price for those votes. A deal is then possible and Obama buys the votes at the lower price.”
— Tyler Cowen in offering a sketch of a dynamic model for healthcare legislation
Mike Rogers (Blue Dog Democrat version) was more or less acting this out on CNN last night, basically promising to get something done by the end of the year. If many of these so-called moderates have relatively high rates of uninsured constituents we shouldn’t be surprised when they jump on the train.
