The president is justifying nationalizing health care because the cost of “not doing something” is too high. It’s a charming way of look at the issue. Some might call that type of reasoning scare tactics, but I’ll give the president the benefit of the doubt. You see, Obama is a new kind of politician. He won’t call his detractors names or dismiss their arguments.
“We are making progress on health care reform and we are identifying ways to pay for it,” Mr. Obama said. But he cautioned that “the hardest part is yet to come — because that’s the part when the naysayers and cynics use every excuse and scare tactic in the book to stop reform from happening. And it’s already happening as we speak.”
Oh wait, he just called me a naysayer, a cynic and a person who can only use scare tactics to advance an argument! This is the same president who said the surge in Iraq wouldn’t work and used scare tactics to pass his so-called stimulus bill. Here’s the main problem with Obama’s health-care plan; he’s dishonest. If the president was really serious about reducing costs he would take on trial lawyers by creating reasonable malpractice payout limits. Since these lawyers are an influential group within the Democrat party they’re off limits. Lawyers continue to drive up costs, but the president turns the other way.
Then the president makes absurd statements like this: “My bottom line is if you’ve got health insurance right now you shouldn’t see your costs go up.” The keyword in this sentence is “shouldn’t.” People shouldn’t be poor, homeless, get diseases, or even kill each other; but it happens. One could even go further and state that a person with no qualifications who has served three years as a Senator “shouldn’t” be considered for the office of president. The best Obama can promise is that you “shouldn’t see your costs go up.” Is that supposed to be a convincing argument? It sounds like lawyer speak to me.
After seeing how the president has acted on the stimulus and climate change bills it appears that he’s huge on marketing and small on details. This new White House doesn’t signal a new era of transparency or open government. After a year and a half of “soaring speeches” that in the end were hollow and meaningless the most poignant quote from our new president is “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.” Obama has covered the government with lipstick.
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