Consumer Protection, Except For The Protecting Consumers Part | The New Republic

By Jonathan Cohn

Democrat Charles Schumer has been a vocal advocate for the public insurance option and, more generally, among his party’s most effective public spokesmen on health care. Republican Olympia Snowe, despite considerable pressure from GOP leadership, has worked diligently to find a compromise both she and her Democratic counterparts can support in good faith. For these things, both deserve credit.

But during the Finance Committee’s hearings last week, Schumer and Snowe collaborated on a pair of amendments that could push reform in the wrong direction.
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