Health reform has taught me many things. One of them is that the best reporting of health policy and politics is in the blogosphere, not from traditional media sources. Today’s post by Harold Pollack is an exemplar. First he quotes today’s Wall Street Journal editorial,
You can do a lot with 59 Senate votes, and that was certainly clear this week as Majority Leader Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats slammed the door on a bipartisan attempt to repeal ObamaCare’s new 1099 reporting requirement on small business.
Then Pollack tells us what the WSJ really should have at least mentioned!
The Nelson Democratic bill would have exempted purchases of less than $5,000 (and firms employing less than 25 people) from the 1099 requirement. It would have addressed the legitimate issues small business people raised. It got 56 votes. It failed because Republicans had the forty votes required blocked it. […]
Here is the real kicker. The Wall Street Journal‘s editor never mentions the Nelson bill at all. The dishonesty is rather astonishing, even from them.
It isn’t and shouldn’t be Harold Pollack’s job to perform this service. But, I’m sure glad he does. It should be the Wall Street Journal’s job to deliver the news without omitting, well, the news. I guess they don’t see it that way. So, why read it?
