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Is the President Too Good for ObamaCare?

By John Lillpop
Tuesday, December 1, 2009

President Obama has made it clear that enactment of health care reform is a make or break proposition for his presidency. He has even indicated that his passion for universal health care is so strong that he might forego ambitions for reelection rather than back down.

He and other liberal politicians have tried to frame the issue as a moral one, a battle in which Democrats have been righteously engaged for decades, only to be stymied by big business and Republican interests more concerned about profits than the health of average Americans.

However, all that alleged liberal compassion has not been powerful enough to cause Democrats to address the devastating impact of money-grubbing lawyers on health care costs. The obvious need for tort reform has been simply ignored, except for an occasional outburst of truth by Howard Dean.

By all means, liberals say, the working classes must be served, provided that the revenue streams which serve as the Democrat party’s cash cow are not threatened, especially with mid-term elections looming.
So much for the moral basis for ObamaCare!

In promoting ObamaCare, the president has promised that his plan will result in lower overall health care costs and will even reduce the federal deficit while “spreading the wealthâ€