“The bill is framed in terms of Republican attacks on the Democratic bill, not in terms of its own aims or methods. Which is fine, and to be expected. If I were a Republican, I wouldn’t spend my time crafting a health-care reform plan, either. Republicans don’t have the votes to pass a bill, and they know it. As such, they’re not particularly interested in spending months crafting a precise and detailed health-care reform alternative, as it wastes time that could be spent fighting the Democratic bill, raising money for 2010, and generally working on projects that have an actual chance to succeed.” — Ezra Klein, on the Republican healthcare alternative