Not that this is decisive, but it seems worth observing that noted squish Noam Chomsky agrees with me that this is a good health care bill. The accurate criticism you can make of it, which he does, is that the bill leaves a lot of bad aspects of our system in place. But not passing the bill would leave all the bad aspects of our system in place and help no one.

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