Posted on 06/20/2009 6:35:39 PM PDT by Libloather
Who Killed Health Care (This Time)?
Upset of the year
By ROBERT A. GEORGE
Updated 8:16 PM EDT, Sat, Jun 20, 2009
Can this be happening before our very eyes?
Can it truly be possible that despite the most popular Democrat in the White House in 45 years and commanding Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate (the latter nearly filibuster-proof), that the quest for the Holy Grail of politics -- a national health-care insurance program -- is likely to fail yet again?
For the Nth time since Harry Truman first suggested the idea in 1945?
That seems to be the building consensus -- even from Democrats, with phrases like "on the rocks" being uttered.
Barely five months into the Obama administration, how could this be the case? And how could the attempt fall apart in accelerated fashion -- much faster than the much-maligned, abortive Clinton effort of 1993 and '94?
Well, cost is certainly one problem: The Congressional Budget Office estimate of the preferred Ted Kennedy-authored bill -- $1.3 trillion -- over ten years terrified a lot of folks, especially given that it would reportedly only reach one-third of the uninsured population that were the main targets of the legislation. When that figure was added to the multitude of polls reflecting growing anxiety over the deficit and debt, it's not surprising that Congress is balking.
However, columnist Jim Pinkerton also identifies another culprit: Health-care reform -- because of Obama decisions on the economy -- has crashed into the political reality following Wall Street meltdown.
When confronted with a choice between healthcare for the poor and the near-poor on the one hand, and the continued overstuffing of the overclass on the other hand, Obama made a decisive choice: He chose the overclass. He put rich people first.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com ...
The socialist media never mentions the fact many of these bills die due to incredible pressure brought to bare on Congress critters by their constituents.
Because it's abundantly clear (even to ardent supports and the majority of the clueless Congress) that Obama doesn't have a clue as to what he's doing. If they keep going the way they are going what we are seeing to Iran we will see on the streets of America.
What this idjit George does’nt understand....is that fooling with healthcare COST the Democrats the Congress in 1946...the first time around. The Senate went Republican that year. In 1994 it cost BOTH the House AND the Senate for the Dems.....it is FAR too big...as in is legislation that has thew potential to affect a huge number of citizens, has far too much potential for a hurricaine style blowback....and at this point is completely unaffordable..to even think about in public, much less act.
Wish I could believe that this time.
I believe that’s coming and sooner than people think and I believe it will start on the very streets of Washington DC and then spread out from there.
Let’s discount it by 10% because it’s CBS/NYT...we’re still surrounded by blindmen.
What do you mean, “figuratively”?
You are being played, Americans.
Again, the communists in charge are just warming up.
Trust me.
Mark Levin had a great first hour on his radio program yesterday.
http://www.marklevinshow.com/sectional.asp?id=32930#
Take a listen, Mark doesn’t charge for these MP3’s. Thank you, Mark.
They're pretty good at warfare. Welfare - a total failure.
Show me one instance where the condition wasn't made worse tenfold, and wasn't swept under the rug by the statists and their tools in the media, and the same issue wasn't trotted out again to be supported by the double digit IQ voters as a cause de jour as a lever to eliminate another inconvenient fragment of the Constitution.
Just one.
Better not or I'll hafta tell Ted Dansen on ya an he'll tell Algore that yer a polluter fer sure!!!
We can only hope this fuy is 100% right!!!
Didn’t we hear that Bill Clinton was the most popular President of all time. What baloney.
“We talk to each other.”
I don’t talk to other Freepers and I don’t personally know anyone that is for obamnicare!
Holy Grail of politics = more power and control. Health-care will give politicians (Dems and RINOs) more power and control over the populous. That's why RINO congressmen introduce "alternative government health plans" instead of suggesting the government stay the hell out. They (RINOs) want control of centralized power as much as the dems.
That kinda says it all, now don't it?
I am not sure, but I do believe that the figures the writer used is quite incorrect.
If I am correct( and I believe I am), when Obama took office, there had only been about 800 Billion approved by the Bush administration. The Trillions have been spent exclusively by BHO and company.
But lets not let the facts get in the way of good propaganda, because if the truth got out, it could cause his approval numbers to fall, and the MSM has too much invested in this Manchurian candidate to allow that to happen.
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