Bending the Cost Curve — With a Crowbar
Having failed to excite the majority of American about covering
30 million of their fellow citizens at the expense of
jeopardizing their own medical care, the Obama Administration has
settled on an even more implausible reform argument — extending
these benefits will lower medical
costs.
The amen [...]
The Blair House Witch Project
The middle distance between truth and error is still error, but
Barack Obama can’t even get there. He is the self-appointed
custodian of “common ground” while not moving an inch towards it,
as evidenced by the fact that the most controversial element in
his plan, abortion funding, remained in [...]
Obama’s approval tanks to basement level
Richard Baehr writes at the American Spectator:
President Obama’s approval numbers in the Rasmussen daily tracking poll have been quite volatile the last few weeks but today reached a new basement level — with only 22% expressing strong approval, and 41% strong disapproval. The 19% margin favoring strong disapproval is the 2nd widest registered since Obama [...]
FDL: ‘How the White House Used Jonathan Gruber’s Work to Orchestrate the Appearance of Broad Consensus’
What makes this all the more interesting is that this is coming from the far-left, liberal, blog FireDogLake, which has been attacking the Obama administration over what amounts to a huge ethical violation that undermines the entirety of health care reform.
Jane Hamsher writes:
Up until this point, most of the attention regarding the failure [...]
Making a Good Bill Even Better
Congress has been working hard for months to shape health insurance reform legislation that will bring down costs, expand coverage, increase accountability for insurers, and attack our mounting deficit. We got good news today on all those fronts, as fresh statements of support from the Small Business Majority, the American Cancer Society, and the American Diabetes Association [...]
WSJ on Obama’s Doctor Shortage
Allysia Finley writes that Barack Obama’s health-care reform proposal will address the problem of a primary care physician shortage will make it worse, not better:
Mr. Obama wants to provide insurance for an additional 30 million Americans, but recent experience in Massachusetts shows that universal coverage will result in an even greater physician shortage and longer [...]
