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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2010 15 Comments

Jim DeMint (R-SC) famously said that health care would be Barack Obama's Waterloo.But Waterloo probably wasn't the best analogy, in hindsight.Waterloo was a short but decisive battle. The health care fight has turned out to be more like the battle of Stalingrad.The battle of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2010 7 Comments

There is no more pernicious aspect of the pending health care bills (Senate, House and Obama "proposal") than the mandate.The mandate is the provision which requires that individuals purchase private insurance.From that mandate flows a host of governmental controls over our lives, from specification of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2010 6 Comments

Obama is willing to be honest with his "progressive" base behind closed doors. The Senate health care bill plus some reconciliation fixes is just the start.The goal always has been a single payer system, and it remains so.As soon as the Senate bill becomes...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2010 10 Comments

Yesterday, I posted my prediction that once the House passed the Senate bill, Obama would sign the Senate bill even if reconciliation changes promised to the House did not pass the Senate.Today, Judd Gregg (R-NH) is echoing that sentiment:The White House may renege on passing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2010 9 Comments

Probably the single biggest obstacle to Obamacare is House Democrats who do not like the Senate health care bill, but whose votes are needed to move the budget reconciliation process along.The strategy appears to be for the House to pass the Senate bill as is,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2010 8 Comments

Yesterday it was reported that Nancy Pelosi signalled that the proposal to be unveiled tomorrow by Barack Obama would be "much smaller." That made news, because it suggested that Obama may be rolling out a "much smaller" plan than either the House or Senate bills,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2010 8 Comments

The Democrats have the votes to use budget reconciliation not only to pass Obama's health care proposal as outlined just prior to the health care summit, but also possibly to add in a public option - or so the messengers would have you believe.There is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2010 2 Comments

Britain's health care system in many ways is our canary in the coal mine warning us about the dangers of Obamacare.What can and does go wrong in Britain is widely documented almost daily in the British press. From these reports, we learn the danger of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2010 12 Comments

A few days ago I wrote that Obama had declared legislative war in signalling that budget reconciliation would be the way to go to pass Obama's health care plan. The doomed-to-fail health care summit was just a justification.The signals today are even clearer. Democrats assert...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2010 28 Comments

Just another day in Spinsville, where the White House attempts to sell a plan which will deprive individuals of control over their health care in favor of federal mandates and regulations, as a plan which will put individuals in charge of their own health care:It...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2010 4 Comments

is that this headline would not be surprising if it were at any of a number of left-wing blogs which do everything they can to smear Tea Party attendees and anyone else who opposes Obamacare and the massive expansion of government:Photo Emerges Of Murderous Killer...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2010 14 Comments

The health care fight is coming to a head. We're in the 15th round, and the health care summit to be followed by budget reconciliation is Obama's desperate attempt to land a one-two knockout punch because he is down on points.Now is not the time...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2010 5 Comments

The pharmaceutical industry is under attack by the Obama administration and Democrats for supposedly obscene profits.Despite the industry's support for Democratic health care efforts, reached last spring in exchange for certain protections, Obama continues to demonize the industry. Obama's new plan, rolled out yesterday, increased...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2010 17 Comments

"Balloon Mortgage."I am glad that Obama released his plan this morning, when I was driving. Since I was in the car for several hours, I did not feel compelled to try to churn out a quick review. Instead, the rest of the world did it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2010 12 Comments

What Obama needs to pass his health care restructuring bill is a good political crisis. One in which he can stand there and proclaim, as he did with the stimulus bill, that we are on the edge of a catastrophe.And since the only way such...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2010 21 Comments

I have to hand it to team Obama. They do not give up on Obama's goal of remaking the health care system into the image that Obama wants.Even if Obama doesn't get everything he wants, if either of the current House or Senate versions passes,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2010 9 Comments

The Democratic base has convinced itself that the problem is that Obama has not succeeded in passing health care legislation and other items on his agenda. The possibility that their agenda is being rejected by voters never enters their minds.Here's a pretty good analysis of...

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