Health Care: Done Deal? Ctd

by Patrick Appel

Chait responds to Jonathan Bernstein:

I'm not quite this optimistic. You're still talking about the Democratic Party. Some small thing could go wrong and make them all start panicking again. Even if everything goes right, it's going to be a tight vote, the votes aren't there, and the party might not be organized or cohesive enough to overcome its collective action problem (every member has a strong interest in reform passing, but they can't figure out which members switch from No to Yes to allow that to happen.)

McArdle is amazed at the conservative and liberal divide on whether health care is likely to pass.