Seattle city attorney Pete Holmes, writing on Crosscut, says state attorney general Rob McKenna's opposition to health care reform shows McKenna doesn't understand how health care works:

Politicians like McKenna who don’t support universal health insurance coverage aren’t saving us money; they’re just perpetuating a system that spreads our ever-increasing health care costs among Medicare, Medicaid, federal, state, and local government employee plans, the VA, other government programs like SCHIP and Basic Health, private employee plans, individually purchased coverage, and charity care provided by public hospitals like Harborview Medical Center. This is an extraordinarily inefficient system — all levels of government already spend an enormous amount of money on health care, our economy as a whole spends more money per capita on health care than any other country, and our overall health outcomes lag behind those in other developed countries that have universal coverage with less overall spending than we do. This isn’t the sort of leadership we need in this Washington or the other Washington.

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