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Obama's Approval on Health Care Below 50% in Four PollsThat's the finding in a USA Today/Gallup poll released Tuesday. Forty-four percent of those questioned in the survey approve of how Obama's dealing with health care, while 50 percent do not. Here's something I didn't know, from Kaus: It turns out that "access" to health care polls badly. I always imagined the opposite, that people were just wild about socialism in this area. Not so. They know when we talk about "access" we're talking about raiding their wallets (and rationing their care) to cover someone else, so they don't like it. That's apparently why Obama has apparently chosen to sell this abortion in terms of "reducing costs" and "bending the curve." The problem with that is that he's actually attempting to reduce costs so he can increase access. So it's not about reducing costs per se -- it's about reducing costs and rationing enough that he can expand access to more non-paying people. And that might be why this isn't working. Because, while he may talk about one more salable notion, people are getting word that in the actual details of the plan it's not about reducing costs, i.e., giving them the same or superior service for less money. It's about giving them inferior service so that more people can have that same level of inferior service. Oh: And the premise that Obama will reduce costs at all -- even as he extends federally guaranteed coverage to millions of Americans -- is so risible that audiences are literally laughing out loud at such assertions. And, to stress, the only reductions in cost at all (reductions more than offset by the huge new costs) will come at the expense of the currently insured, who will find that they must now sacrifice their personal health for the Greater Good of Lord God King Obama's plan. (Incidentally, apologies if I earlier seemed to imply that Obama's plan really would cut costs. Of course it wouldn't. I was taking his claims at face value, for sake of argument.)
* President Obama and Democrats are conducting a grand experiment with our economy, our country, and now our health care. I wouldn't have guessed "experiment" held a lot of rhetorical power, but that's why no one pays me for my insights.* Personally, I'm already overloaded on "experiment" myself, and I just saw one guy using the word. Steele said it about ten times. I guess this sort of repetition works. But it sure seems transparent and silly. * Well, you guys do pay me -- and thanks. But no one is putting me on a salary. Thanks to AHFF Geoff. | Recent Comments
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