AllahP on Obama’s Tonsil-gaffe, and his imputations of police incompetence:
First doctors, then cops. Which indispensable profession will Barry impugn next? I’ll give odds on firefighters at 3-1, soldiers at 5-1, and teachers at 10-1 (only because of the union pressure).
Ace on the healthcare double/triple-speak:
Obama is not giving a clear primary directive on his supposed “vision.” Is he seeking to reduce costs of health care for individuals and businesses who purchase health care, or is he seeking to reduce costs of providing health care for the federal government?
Note they are not the same thing at all. For example, raising taxes on the middle class to pay for heath care (both the current schemes and the expanded scheme Obama has in mind) would reduce federal costs. But obviously such taxes will increase the net cost of health care to tax-paying middle-class individuals.
So which is it? Well, whenever Obama talks about the issue, he seems to claim, of course, that his primary goal is to reduce the costs to individuals, but most of his specific suggestions have to do with defraying federal costs. Further, when pressed to answer why we must pass this gibberish in two weeks, he offers the coming insolvency vis a vis the federal system as the doom we primarily seek to avert.
And both are actually disingenuous anyway, as his primary goal is to increase coverage, which will increase both personal and federal costs. His whole “bend the curve”/rationing crap is intended to provide some semi-plausible (but still quite implausible) mechanism by which the government can take on the burden of paying for the health care of tens of millions more people and yet somehow reduce both federal costs and costs to the taxpayer.
Bu[t] providing access to the uninsured doesn’t poll well, as taxpayers correctly deduce that this means no benefit for themselves, but rather higher costs and rationing to service the uninsured.
Picky, picky.
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He’s Humanity perfected,
Che Guevara resurrected. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLcilJGPo68&feature=player_embedded