President Obama didn’t write the bill he only sponsored it. I believe if he had originally wrote something, then promoted it this wouldn’t have been as bad as he is still trusted more then any member of our Congress.
I guess the bill’s problems lie with who you talk to. The focal points seem to be;
- Expense. The CBO’s estimate doesn’t address all of the house changes, so there are a number of unknowns. - Expense to the states. Can they afford to carry their share of the burden when many of them are struggling - Expense to Business. Catepillar has said that the bill will cost them in excess of an extra $100m. Small Business are also worried. - Expense to individuals, everyone worries about how this will effect them. Our state experiments with healthcare have not been pretty. - Expansion of Government Powers. Supposedly, and I haven’t seen proof of the yet, there will be over 10,000 additional IRS employees to hunt down violators of this law.
I’ll reserve judgment because we haven’t seen all of the bill yet. Let me see things in writing. My biggest problem with it was idealogical, something I am used to shrugging off.
1) For the first time in our history it will be a crime not to carry health insurance. 2) When campaigning for the office, the President promised to put all bills on display for 5 days after being passed so that the people had time to read all of what would become a new law. He didn’t do it here. In fact he’s ignored that promise enough where I consider it an outright lie and that irritates me.
The two extreme new organizations here seem to be FOX (Rep) and MSNBC ( Dem.) with Fox viewership dwarfing MSNBC. You have to be careful when reading any analysis.
CNN has actually started to look good again, although this article addresses the micro not the macro view.
It should be an interesting few years. The problem with all of this rhetoric flying about from both side is that we won’t know the truth until things transition. I will say now that the dust has began to settle it looked like they did a fair job with some of the exception for small businesses. Still need more time to look at it.
I think Obama as a person is much more popular outside of the United States then within and that’s why you’re seeing the spin of opposing the bill means opposing Obama. From what I have read the foreign press treats him like a movie star or the way the Catholics look at the pope.
Here’s he’s the President, which means most of the hardcore party faithful either love or hate him depending on which party they belong to. The rest of us, those inclined to be swing voters, either get annoyed or enthusiastic about him based on daily events*. He’s just the man that has the job right now. He earned it and deserves respect for holding that office even when we disagree but there are times we’re going to disagree.
*It usually takes 4-5 years before I get sick of a sitting President. So far that’s held true since Clinton. The gang in congress, especially when there is a super majority, and their antics are the ones who typically drive me nuts. I think the general populace gets sick of Presidents after 6 years.
I guess the bill’s problems lie with who you talk to. The focal points seem to be;
- Expense. The CBO’s estimate doesn’t address all of the house changes, so there are a number of unknowns.
- Expense to the states. Can they afford to carry their share of the burden when many of them are struggling
- Expense to Business. Catepillar has said that the bill will cost them in excess of an extra $100m. Small Business are also worried.
- Expense to individuals, everyone worries about how this will effect them. Our state experiments with healthcare have not been pretty.
- Expansion of Government Powers. Supposedly, and I haven’t seen proof of the yet, there will be over 10,000 additional IRS employees to hunt down violators of this law.
I’ll reserve judgment because we haven’t seen all of the bill yet. Let me see things in writing. My biggest problem with it was idealogical, something I am used to shrugging off.
1) For the first time in our history it will be a crime not to carry health insurance.
2) When campaigning for the office, the President promised to put all bills on display for 5 days after being passed so that the people had time to read all of what would become a new law. He didn’t do it here. In fact he’s ignored that promise enough where I consider it an outright lie and that irritates me.
The two extreme new organizations here seem to be FOX (Rep) and MSNBC ( Dem.) with Fox viewership dwarfing MSNBC. You have to be careful when reading any analysis.
CNN has actually started to look good again, although this article addresses the micro not the macro view.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/24/health.care.viewer.faqs/
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EL20N80.htm
From the Libertarian perspective.
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/24/the-health-care-liberation-mov
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I think Obama as a person is much more popular outside of the United States then within and that’s why you’re seeing the spin of opposing the bill means opposing Obama. From what I have read the foreign press treats him like a movie star or the way the Catholics look at the pope.
Here’s he’s the President, which means most of the hardcore party faithful either love or hate him depending on which party they belong to. The rest of us, those inclined to be swing voters, either get annoyed or enthusiastic about him based on daily events*. He’s just the man that has the job right now. He earned it and deserves respect for holding that office even when we disagree but there are times we’re going to disagree.
*It usually takes 4-5 years before I get sick of a sitting President. So far that’s held true since Clinton. The gang in congress, especially when there is a super majority, and their antics are the ones who typically drive me nuts. I think the general populace gets sick of Presidents after 6 years.
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