That's how Leonard E. Burman, Jason Furman, and Roberton Williams describe the health care proposal that President Bush will propose in tonight's speech. So, yes, there is hope for bipartisanship.
Update: The Wall Street Journal also likes the proposal. Here's a theorem: Any time the Wall Street Journal editorialists and Jason Furman agree, they are right.
Update 2: Steven Pearlstein and Ruth Marcus have nice pieces on the topic in today's Post.
Update 3: Here is a description of the distributional impact of the policy. The U.S. Treasury estimates that it would be a tax cut for the bottom four quintiles and a tax increase for the top quintile.
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