, Columnist
Cut Health Costs or Help Workers. You Can't Do Both.
Any appreciable medical savings would hurt job prospects for the working class.
Pharmacies, hospitals, clinics -- that's where the jobs are.
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The country seems fragmented as never before. And yet there are two things that everyone can seemingly agree upon: Something needs to be done about the parlous condition of the working class, and we need to get a handle on health-care costs.
Many a columnist has pointed out that neither party has a credible plan for actually addressing these problems, of course. Even in a year of surprising candidacies, there are no sound fresh ideas on these two fronts. All we have is solemn agreement that something ought to be done.