Michael Lind thinks Congress should not enact comprehensive reforms of anything, including health care. The piecemeal approach works better.
His main points:
1 - Comprehensive reform tries to address too many problems at the same time, instead of addressing particular problems by particular pieces of legislation.
2 - Comprehensive reform tries to assemble a single majority for a multipurpose bill, instead of assembling different majorities for different bills.
3 - Comprehensive reform by its very nature shuts out the public.
4 - Comprehensive reform kills the appetite for subsequent reform.
Comments:
- Patrick Appel wants to keep it simple.
- Publius is worried about agency capture.
