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Politico: ObamaCare in "Real Jeopardy"Public anxiety about red ink — muted during this winter’s debate over an economic stimulus package — has come roaring back, with a Gallup Poll showing deficits and spending as the only issues where more people disapprove of Obama’s performance than approve of it. Democratic Rep. Cooper writes that the plan is "on life support:" [W]e are explicitly told not to work with Republicans. "Those mistakes" refers to the 1993 HillaryCare failure. Cooper was a Congressman pushing for health care then, too. Meanwhile the public isn't quite as hot for Hope and Change in health care as might have been thought. Public support for big changes is actually lower than it was in 1993, when Hillary's plan ended in Epic Fail. A majority still says it's more important to expand care, but there was a +54 point advantage for "expand care" in 1994, and a mere +20 advantage for it now. According to the Politico argument, many liberal Democrats feel that there's no point trying to craft a bipartisan bill (they're probably right, too) and so, of course, will table the issue until spending is controlled and we have the money to pay for this. No, of course not. They want to ram it through on not just party-line votes, but liberal only party-line votes, losing moderate and conservative Democrats entirely (except for those few votes they can buy through bribes to get a razor-thin majority). Michael Barone sees trouble for Obama on several fronts, including health care: But consider these findings from the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll: Polls keep indicating the public does not agree that health care is a "crisis," as Obama claims. They seem to think runaway budgets are something closer to a crisis, which his bank-breaking health care schemes would turn to 11. Karl Rove thinks Obama's plan can be beaten, but only, he says, if Republicans have some kind of alternative to point to. Which they also won't be able to pass, but they can draw away support with a better alternative. He endorses a plan by some Congressional Republicans which, unless I'm missing something, looks a lot like McCain's old plan, minus McCain's plan to tax health care benefits. (Which was actually a tax cut in the net, because it came along with a government rebate for health care that would exceed the taxes paid for employer-provided health care by a fair amount for most people. In other words, if your employer provides your health care, you could use the tax rebate to pay the taxes on the health-care-given-as-compensation and put the excess of the rebate right in your pocket. It makes little financial sense to give the rebate without taxing employer-provided benefits -- in the net, more deficit spending -- but 1) there's little chance of this passing anyway and 2) we need an attractive alternative and 3) people are dumb.) | Recent Comments
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