That is the only thing that one conclude based on the assertion in a front page article that Republicans are opposed to health care reform because they: “consider [reform] to be a disastrous government intervention in the nation’s health-care system.”
Yes, that is what Republican members of Congress say, but how do we know that this is true. Republicans get lots of money from the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, the hospital industry and they also have a direct political interest in embarrassing President Obama and the Democrats in Congress. Many of us might think that politicians could be motivated by these political considerations. Fortunately, we have the Washington Post to tell us that they acted out of their concern for the good of the country.
–Dean Baker
