"The Largest Expansion of Coverage since Medicare"

"Yet the bill that Dean so casually dismisses would spend, according to the Congressional Budget Office, nearly $200 billion annually once it is fully phased in to help subsidize insurance coverage for over 30 million Americans now without it. That's real money--the most ambitious and generous expansion of the public safety net since the Great Society under Lyndon Johnson. And that money, based on the Census results, would flow most into minority and working-class white communities."

Ronald Brownstein at The Atlantic criticizes Howard Dean's criticism of the Senate health-care bill.

And Jonathan Chait in The New Republic puts the bill in historical perspective.