Last night on CNN, The Wonk Room’s health care blogger Igor Volsky debated Lou Dobbs and Sally Pipes, a special-interest funded health care pundit. Igor fended off a series of common myths proffered by both Dobbs and Pipes about the current health reform debate. Some key quotes from Igor’s appearance:
– “[The CBO report] said that the public health insurance option would reduce premiums for families by about 10 percent on average. So health reform — if we do it right, if we do it in a comprehensive manner, if it includes a public plan – will lower costs for American families.”
– “If you put [the total cost of the bill] in the context of inaction, in the context of doing nothing, then a trillion dollars is a very good investment for health care costs that will push many middle-class families into bankruptcy. … It’s about the middle class.”
– “This notion that it’s being ‘rammed through’ I think is highly inaccurate and is used by some on the political right to kill reform.”
Watch it:
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