Why Did NYT Do a Puff Piece on Finance Members Holding Up Health Reform?

By: Scarecrow
Monday July 27, 2009 10:31 pm

The New York Times has done some excellent reporting lately, particulary by David Leonhardt, on the health care reform debates. Sunday's half-page editorial summary of the bills and issues was also excellent.

So unless this article is meant to mock Baucus' nightmare team, it is bewildering that the Times would allow itself to be used by the Senate Finance Committee to cover for the continuing failure of the "coalition of the unwilling" to produce a proposal that isn't an insult to the millions of Americans waiting for real reforms.