Really, you and I can understand this

Health-insurance reform is complicated! You'll never be able to understand it, so you should probably just be opposed to it.

Even if the above made sense on its own terms, which it doesn't, it still rings false because it isn't actually that hard to understand the broad outline of what's being proposed. To that end, here's a cheat sheet by Alec MacGillis. And here's a flow chart by Nicholas Beaudrot, per Chris Hayes.

Elsewhere, Bob Herbert does that rare op-ed writer thing--reporting--and takes a look at successful, low-cost publicly funded health care already in action.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are moving the bars again. Coming soon: "Allowing people to use their tax refund to pay their enormous medical bills from when their insurance company denied them coverage based on some trumped-up preexisting condition thing is a government takeover of health care!"