Health care costs are out of control. Let's spend more money on health care to rein in the costs. Put your brain in a blender and President Obama's argument for greater state intrusion into health care to bring down the costs of state intrusion into health care might make sense. Even liberals sympathetic to the idea of universal coverage balk at the president's reasoning. Robert Samuelson thinks Obama's so-called reform "naive," "hypocritical" and "dishonest." The Washington Post scribe explains, "what's being promoted as health care 'reform' almost certainly won't suppress spending and, quite probably, will do the opposite." The American Medical Association opposes the president's health-care plan. MSNBC.com questions Obama's fuzzy math insisting efficiency savings of $100 billion to help fund the gargantuan government program. Democrats in Congress openly concede that the votes just aren't there for ObamaCare. Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu opposes publically financing a national health-insurance plan. North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad has offered a "co-op" compromise between Obama's public plan and the employer-based health insurance that is currently the norm. Democratic Senators Max Baucus and Ben Nelson also oppose Obama's government-funded health insurance proposal. Even with Democratic majorities there are limits to what Democratic presidents can do. If President Obama doubts this, he need only consult his secretary of state's husband, who knows something about socialized medicine dividing Democrats and dragging down a president's popularity.

Hope this turns out to be one of many nails in his political coffin. Only then will the Republic be saved.

Could be, ASDF. Kind of interesting that even liberals see the illogic in his plans...

According to the NYT article today, however, David Brooks seems to think that his golden boywill get it done.

Gee whiz, that's a shockagh. The NYT thinks he'll get it done? I'm certain there was some hard boiled an@lysis involved for the Times to fall into the Obama column.

You are obviously insane or immature. I'm not sure how you surmise that most Americans want Universal Health Care unless Obama told you and you believe him.

The big number that O and the Dems use to attempt to justify this healthcare grab is the 44 to 45 million Americans without it.

When you factor that out of that number there are wealthy people who take care of their own, illegal aliens who either choose to not have it or can't get it and people who flat out don't care, the number drops to around 16 million.

So naturally, O and the Dems want to spend another $4 trillion that we don't have over the long haul to fund a program that would be unmanageable (especially by a group of government bureaucrats) and unsustainable financially to serve a subset of our population.

Makes sense to me!!?

Considering that they’ve done such a stellar job with Medicare and Social Security, this proposal has disaster written all over it.

My Bad. I believe I inadvertantly deleted several comments from this thread when cleaning out spam. Looking at the internet handles, I wrongly deduced that a real commentor was a spammer. My apologies.