Posted on 8/1/2009, 3:31:24 AM by Steelfish
Obamacare: The Coming Retreat
Charles Krauthammer July 31, 2009
Yesterday, Barack Obama was God. Today, he's fallen from grace, the magic gone, his health-care reform dead. If you believed the first idiocy -- and half the mainstream media did -- you'll believe the second. Don't believe either.
Will the Health Industry Derail Obama's Reforms?
Conventional wisdom always makes straight-line projections. They are always wrong. Yes, Obama's aura has diminished, in part because of overweening overexposure. But by year's end he will emerge with something he can call health-care reform.
The Democrats in Congress will pass it because they must. Otherwise, they'll have slain their own savior in his first year in office.
But that bill will look nothing like the massive reform Obama originally intended. The beginning of the retreat was signaled by Obama's curious reference -- made five times -- to "health-insurance reform" during his July 22 news conference.
Reforming the health-care system is dead. Cause of death? Blunt trauma administered not by Republicans, not even by Blue Dog Democrats, but by the green eyeshades at the Congressional Budget Office.
Three blows:
-- On June 16, the CBO determined that the Senate Finance Committee bill would cost $1.6 trillion over 10 years, delivering a sticker shock that was near fatal.
-- Five weeks later, the CBO gave its verdict on the Independent Medicare Advisory Council, Dr. Obama's latest miracle cure, conjured up at the last minute to save Obamacare from fiscal ruin, and consisting of a committee of medical experts highly empowered to make Medicare cuts.
The CBO said that IMAC would do nothing, trimming costs by perhaps 0.2 percent. A 0.2 percent cut is not a solution; it's a punch line
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When those congresscritters come home for recess, the public needs to jam this down their throats...”NO type of healthcare reform” PERIOD!
It was for this reason he was installed. Don't expect it go away quite like that.
Exactly right. Remember Hillary trying the same thing. "Healthcare" is the door that opens to facism and that's what their goal is.
Would that be related to the economic principle that "we lose money on every sale but we make it up on volume"?
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5683425/
Watch the video! People are becoming more and more active as the word spreads.
What can we do? HELP SPREAD THE TRUTH!
Don’t count on it, anytime words come out of these peoples mouths you know that means they are lying.
“Health Insurance Reform” can still equal “SIngle Payer”. They will just reform them right out of existence.
The same goes for this public health policy. If it weighs 11 pounds, its bound to screw the "buyer".
ping for later
I will never ever accept a watered down form of this bill and if this is what the gubmint wants to pander to the american public and make them think this is OK, I say NOT
Wake Up People and spread the coming word- JUST SAY NO !!
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