Health Care Round-Up « Main Street

President Obama told the Today Show’s Meredith Vieira that health care reform shouldn’t be about politics:

“This is not as important to me as it is to the people who don’t have health care. I’ve got health care,” Obama told Vieira. “This isn’t as important to me as the family that’s gone bankrupt because they got a bunch of medical bills that they thought the insurance companies had covered that turned out they weren’t covered. So, yes, absolutely, I am deeply invested in getting this thing done. But this isn’t Washington sport. This isn’t about who’s up and who’s down. This is about solving an enormous problem for the American people.”

Meanwhile, Jim DeMint, Bill Kristol, and others were trying to kill reform for political reasons.

The Washington Post debunks some numbers the health insurance industry has been throwing around.

Ezra Klein clarifies the important distinction between national health care expenses and public health care expenses. Technical, yes, but when you’re dealing with such a massive and important issue, knowing some of the technical stuff is important in assessing what you hear.