Stephen Davidson

“As I wrote in Still Broken, many factors contributed to the failure of past reform efforts.11 They include that paranoid “political culture” rooted in an “ambivalence toward government and . . . bias toward private solutions to public problems”;12 the absence of a strong labor movement; race, especially during the period prior to the 1960s when Southern Democrats dominated the Congress; and the structure of government, which gives veto power to even small numbers of opponents. The fact is that many different bodies—most important, the two houses of Congress—must agree to pass a major piece of legislation, but it takes only a few determined individuals to kill it.13 But”
― Stephen Davidson, A New Era in U.S. Health Care: Critical Next Steps Under the Affordable Care Act