Let’s rewind a year:
“I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We’ll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they’ll get a seat at the table, they just won’t be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process.”
– Candidate Barak Obama
Oh, really?
Look, Mr. President. I understand campaigns are about getting elected and what you face in the Oval Office is a fair bit different but in this case you didn’t even make an effort. Health care reform should have been a 2-4 year goal. How can you shove a bill down our throats made of such opaque language companies will need a lawyer to understand it – then not even mention things like TORT reform, the doctor shortage, or insurance competition across state lines?
It’s my blog, I’m allowed to get up on my soap box for a minute. Mr. President, this bill is the biggest piece of garbage out of DC since the last time a President wanted to give a compelling State of the Union address and was running out of time to talk about anything other than a failed summit in Copenhagen, a nuclear arms reduction deal that didn’t materialize, and a Nobel Peace Prize a few weeks into office.
I know, I know, it happens to everybody.
Enjoy your speech.
