In an attempt to paint Democratic health care reform plans as too complex, Rep. Boehner (pronounced "Boh-ner") and Co. in the House Republican Caucus put out a flowchart demonstrating the complexity of the proposal being bandied about (viewable here).
The flowchart pictured above? That's not it.
What the image above does depict (courtesy of The New Republic, where you can see a higher resolution version) is our present health care system, as TNR put it, "in all its convoluted glory."
The moral? Health care in America is a complex thing, and reforming it will be an equally complex process.
The moral, continued? Despite the success of 1994's version of the flowchart* in scaring the American public away from Bill Clinton's reform agenda, Republicans will need to build a deeper playbook if they hope to defeat reform a second time.
*If anyone can find the 1994 version, I'd love to see it. You'll even get a shout-out in these pages...
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