Obama Pundit

by Hector N. Fertig
On July 17th, Senator Jim DeMint (R – South Carolina) famously said about Obamacare:
“If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”
Senator DeMint is wrong.  Universal Health Care / Coverage will not be the end for Obama in the sense that Waterloo was the [...]

by Hector N. Fertig
There are two fundamental issues with regard to universal health coverage: the practical issues involving costs and quality, and the moral issues involving who should be covered.  For most supporters of universal health care, the moral issues trump the practical.  Further, for many opponents of universal health coverage, moral issues are historically [...]

by Hector N. Fertig
It sounds as though the Public Option is no longer an indispensible piece of the Obama Administration’s health care plan.  If this is true, to many observers of the health care debate, this represents a substantial shift in policy from only a month ago.
“Any plan I sign must include an insurance exchange: [...]

by Obama Pundit
…are out.
Clearly, the new strategy on the Left is to equate opposition to Obama to racism.  Do you think it is a coincidence that there is suddenly a flurry of opinion pieces on Birthers and racists and how it relates to Obama’s policies?
First, we had the Yglesias piece, which I discussed below.  Then [...]

by Obama Pundit
The way things are going, Obama is on his way to a major defeat on health care.  However, it is not yet a fait accompli.
How can he turn things around?
I think the smartest thing he can do right now is to pivot into a populist position.  He has been spending much of the [...]

by Obama Pundit
Turns out the surtax on the rich proposed by the Democrats as a way to fund health care will have the perverse effect of affecting doctors the most.
The top eight highest-paid professions in the U.S. are–you guessed it–in the medical or dental fields.
Medical and dental specialists top the list of the highest paid [...]

by Obama Pundit
You know the Left is worried when a liberal like Robert Reich calls on all Democrats to unite to pass health care. 
This bill is dead…

Robin Hood provided one of taxations greatest soundbites, “rob from the rich and give to the poor.”  The real power behind soundbites comes when the phrase outlives the usefulness of its context.  The Obama Administration’s push for Universal Health Care/Coverage is being spun as just such a Robin Hood approach; increasing taxes upon the wealthiest [...]

by Obama Pundit
I opined a few weeks ago that Obama and the Democrats are headed for a health care disaster on par with 1994 and, amazingly, all the pieces are falling into place.
As in 1994, the GOP has come out with a chart to depict the madness of the pending health care bureaucracy that will be created [...]

by Obama Pundit
When Obama and Congressional Democrats were passing laws earlier this spring expanding the size of the federal government by 34 percent, there was little or no cry from the mainstream media about the need for moderation or bipartisanship.  You see, the press agrees with the idea of a larger government in general, so Obama’s [...]

This graph is popping up pretty much everywhere …
Its things like these that erode credibility when it comes time for the American public to be asked to write checks for something like Obamacare.
The President’s four year term offers shelter but all you have to do is watch Congress to see how well the public is [...]

by C. William Chattin
Clive Cook has an excellent article up at the Financial Times on the implication of the so-called “public option” of ObamaCare.  The “public option” would be a federally-funded public health insurance carrier (not unlike Medicare) that would “compete” with private health care insurance companies.  In comments Monday, President Obama assured members of the American [...]

by Brian Grummell
Graf lifted from Hot Air concerning the drama and upheaval in Iran and the White House’s strange CNN-like, near-silence on the issue:
Fun fact: Whereas The One was “shocked and outraged” by the murder of George Tiller, the most he can muster here for mass beatings and cold-blooded killings across Iran is that he’s [...]

by Obama Pundit
I think a good rule of thumb when it comes to the political tolerance of the American electorate is “if it doesn’t affect my daily life, then I might be okay with it”. 
And so, as far-reaching as some of Obama’s initiatives might look on paper, their practical ramifications have not yet shown up [...]