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Demo­c­ra­tic Blind Faith in Big Gov­ern­ment Health Care Reform

We’re expected to believe a Democrat-controlled Con­gress, with deep divi­sions in its ranks, will put together a bill that will keep every­thing the same for those who have health insur­ance through their jobs, Medicare, Med­ic­aid, or the VA; man­date cov­er­age of pre-existing con­di­tions; ban caps on cov­er­age; man­date cov­er­age of rou­tine check­ups and pre­ven­tive care, like mam­mo­grams and colono­scopes; offer health insur­ance to 30 mil­lion unin­sured; pro­vide tax cred­its for small busi­nesses; pain­lessly man­date cov­er­age for the young healthy unin­sured; pro­vide hard­ship waivers; pro­vide choice and com­pe­ti­tion; keep insur­ance com­pa­nies hon­est; avoid tax­payer sub­si­dies for pub­lic option plans; keep out ille­gal immi­grants; not pay for abor­tions; and not deny care to the elderly because of cost-benefit analy­ses, all while not adding one dime to our deficits – either now or in the future. (Why Was The Pres­i­dent Yelling At Us?).

Demo­c­ra­tic Blind Faith in Big Gov­ern­ment Health Care Reform

A CNN/Opinion Research poll found:

[Of those who watched Obama’s speech] sixty-seven per­cent of peo­ple ques­tioned in the sur­vey say the sup­port Obama’s health care reform pro­pos­als that the pres­i­dent out­lined in his address, with 29 per­cent opposed. Those fig­ures are almost iden­ti­cal to a poll con­ducted imme­di­ately after Bill Clinton’s health care speech before Con­gress in Sep­tem­ber, 1993.

The audi­ence for the speech appears to be more Demo­c­ra­tic than the U.S. pop­u­la­tion as a whole. Because of this, the results may favor Obama sim­ply because more Democ­rats than Repub­li­cans tune into the speech. The poll sur­veyed the opin­ions of peo­ple who watched Wednes­day night’s speech, and does not reflect the views of all Americans.

Obama got the expected jump in support:

About one in seven peo­ple who watched the speech changed their minds on Obama’s health care plan. “Going into the speech, a bare major­ity of his audi­ence — 53 per­cent — favored his pro­pos­als. Imme­di­ately after the speech, that fig­ure rose to 67 per­cent,” says CNN Polling Direc­tor Keat­ing Hol­land. “But the real ques­tion is whether those con­ver­sions will last. Bill Clin­ton got sim­i­lar num­bers after his 1993 address to Con­gress, but five months later a major­ity of the coun­try no longer sup­ported his plan.”

The Blind Faith Of Demo­c­ra­t­ics in Oba­maCare Sur­passes All Understanding

Yet — there was almost noth­ing new in the speech, aside from the bul­ly­ing and blus­ter­ing, and it was still just as vac­u­ous and cheerlead-y as all the other speeches, i.e., “While there remain some sig­nif­i­cant details to be ironed out” — boy, that’s an understatement.

Hugh Hewitt sums up the incredulity any­one with a func­tion­ing set of frontal lobes would nat­u­rally feel lis­ten­ing to that  speech — any­one, of course, but those lib­er­als who will habit­u­ally & blithely fol­low any tune of the Pied Piper we heard last night:

The president’s theme was obvi­ous early on: Noth­ing that was said against his plan in August had merit and cer­tainly noth­ing that came up at the town­halls was legitimate.

“Mis­in­for­ma­tion,” “bogus claims,” “scare tac­tics,” “such a charge would be laugh­able,’ “it is a lie plain and sim­ple” –wel­come to the civil dis­course of the hope and change era.

The speech really ought not to have gone on as long as it did. The short form:

There is noth­ing to worry about seniors.

The plan will not cost a dime in increased deficits.

No one will be incon­ve­nienced much less deeply dis­ap­pointed much less on the receiv­ing end of a rationing scheme.

Tort reform? We’ve got demon­stra­tion projects.

The pub­lic option? Nec­es­sary because of the sit­u­a­tion in Alabama.

A few details remain to be worked out –but pay no atten­tion to the ner­vous laugh­ter in the chambers.

We can do this because I say we must. It is in our char­ac­ter to vastly expand the size and cost of government.

The prob­lem with the president’s speech, and it is a very, very big prob­lem, is that to be believed it would require a huge amount of trust in the pres­i­dent. The sort of trust that could only have been earned by a fair account­ing of the crit­ics’ many and seri­ous objections.

And that account­ing was exactly what wasn’t in the president’s speech.

Pres­i­dent Obama took a pre­dictable whack at “death pan­els,” but in so doing he dis­missed every other objec­tion raised by every other critic.

We know our own minds. We know why we are object­ing to the plan. We know how the Post Office works, how Amtrack works, how reli­able are pledges from Democ­rats about cost controls

We know the pres­i­dent can­not guar­an­tee that we get to keep our insur­ance and our doc­tors because most of us get our insur­ance from our employ­ers, and they will decide what we get after they con­sider what the new law dic­tates and demands.

We know what the Con­gres­sional Bud­get Office has said about the price tag, and we know what Henry Wax­man and Nancy Pelosi really really want and what the pres­i­dent him­self has endorsed in the past, which is a sin­gle payer system

And seniors know that you can­not drain $500 or more bil­lion dol­lars from medicare and deliver the same ben­e­fits as are deliv­ered today. You can­not make deep cuts in Medicare Advan­tage and not lower the stan­dard of liv­ing for many seniors.

Seniors are afraid, and they are right to be afraid, and noth­ing the pres­i­dent said in his speech will make them less afraid because he did not dis­cuss their fears –he dis­missed them.

The pres­i­dent can promise that ille­gal aliens won’t be cov­ered, but how exactly are hos­pi­tals going to stop pro­vid­ing the care they are presently pro­vid­ing and which only heart­less robots could deny? It sim­ply isn’t believ­able for the pres­i­dent to tell the coun­try that ille­gal aliens won’t be cov­ered –and did you notice the stress among the Democ­rats on that point– but not address one of the great unfunded cur­rent costs of the sys­tem which is the pro­vi­sion of health care to ille­gal immi­grants via emer­gency room care.

The pres­i­dent can assure the audi­ence that abor­tion won’t be a cov­ered pro­ce­dure under his “reforms,” but the coun­try knows where his party is on that issue and there isn’t the bold print guar­an­tee pro-lifers want in any of the draft bills, nor will one be forthcoming.

Again and again the pres­i­dent trot­ted out the tired old talk­ing points in defense of the tired old argu­ments. The usual cast of straw men made their appear­ance, and the pres­i­dent dis­patched them all.

And we’ve all been warned, we radio and cable talk­ers, that the pres­i­dent will call us out.

And not a minb was changed, not a new argu­ment advanced, not a sin­gle com­pro­mise put forward.

The only thing bipar­ti­san about this debate is the oppo­si­tion to much of the president’s plan. That’s the way it was on Wednes­day morning.

And that’s still the way it is late on Wednes­day night. (We Will Call You Out!)

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