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  • Obamacare: The Only Exit Strategy

    08/28/2009 2:33:24 AM PDT · by Schnucki · 13 replies · 1,452+ views
    WP ^ | August 28, 2009 | Charles Krauthammer
    Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at its expense and intrusiveness but also at the mendacity with which it is being sold. You don't need a PhD to see that the promise to expand coverage and reduce costs is a crude deception, or that cutting $500 billion from Medicare without affecting care is a fiction. But there is an exit strategy. And a politically clever one, if the Democrats are smart enough to seize it. (1) Forget the public option. Whatever the...