Former Clinton Adviser Mark Penn on the Health Care Debate

Former Clinton Adviser Mark Penn on the Health Care Debate

Last week, in an important Washington Post column, Senator Orrin Hatch made an argument against the use of reconciliation in the health care battle taking place on Capitol Hill. Hatch noted that "This use of reconciliation to jam through this legislation, against the will of the American people, would be unprecedented in scope."  On the other side of the aisle, former Clinton adviser Mark Penn seemed to agree with some of Hatch's analysis in a recent article he wrote about the proposed use of reconciliation and a major difference between this health care bill and other controversial pieces of legislation from the past.

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