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Commentary on Obama's Universal Health Care Plan
Ezra Klein reports Obama's team is steering Congress toward including mandates in its
health care plan -- a key front of Obama's primary battle against
Hillary.
What I find interesting is they are giving congress an idea and saying... "you guys work on the details". What it strikes me as is something my junior high volleyball coach once taught me. My apologies if the analogy isn't quite right, but you'll get the idea... "if you aim for the stars, you'll reach the sun. if you aim for the sun, you'll reach the moon. If you aim for the moon, you'll reach the lamp post." The analogy isn't great, but you get the idea. It seems to me, Pres. Obama is telling congress "aim for the stars", in hopes that they reach the sun... or at least the moon. Both being better than a lamp post. If he sets his aim at the moon, he might not get there.
Obama campaigned on what he thought could get done, not what was the best option. Now that he is president, he is aiming for the best option, knowing full well it will fall short and get what he thinks it gettable.
What I find interesting is they are giving congress an idea and saying... "you guys work on the details". What it strikes me as is something my junior high volleyball coach once taught me. My apologies if the analogy isn't quite right, but you'll get the idea... "if you aim for the stars, you'll reach the sun. if you aim for the sun, you'll reach the moon. If you aim for the moon, you'll reach the lamp post." The analogy isn't great, but you get the idea. It seems to me, Pres. Obama is telling congress "aim for the stars", in hopes that they reach the sun... or at least the moon. Both being better than a lamp post. If he sets his aim at the moon, he might not get there.
Obama campaigned on what he thought could get done, not what was the best option. Now that he is president, he is aiming for the best option, knowing full well it will fall short and get what he thinks it gettable.
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Sorry best option is single payer. He knows it too.
Mandates are just another bandaid. Good luck enforcing it.
February 24, 2009 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mandates undermine entitlements. Once you can force the unemployed middle-aged to buy insurance they can't afford with deductibles they can't afford, you can coerce granny into doing the same.
February 24, 2009 6:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mandates will be a disaster. The only sane way to achieve universal healthcare is to take the profit out of the health insurance business. Everything else will cause costs to explode. Obama knows it.
February 24, 2009 11:50 PM | Reply | Permalink