ccangelopearl1362
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Perhaps this thread will best serve us in covering any and all political events inside and around the United States, generally speaking. President Barack Obama commands an army that practically dominates North America and a navy that can easily access the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans at once, and our two national neighbors seem quite friendly. In fact, one of them is so friendly that its people seem eager to move in with us. Both neighbors may be paying attention to the political currents coursing through Washington, D.C., at this moment, trying to determine where Obama and his advisors will drift next. A couple of Fox News Channel health care headlines may give us a few clues about this latest direction.:
Fox News Channel: Battle Lines Drawn Over Government Health Plan
Fox News Channel: Dodd Resists Tax on Health Care Benefits, Calls Proposal 'Unnecessary'
While Robert Reischauer of the Urban Institute proposes allowing the private sector to bend the cost curve and then unlocking some sort of authority for a public health care plan if that private option fails, Lee Nichols of the New America Foundation notes the basic function of keeping premiums reasonable. However, whereas Iowa Senator Tom Harkin believes that a public plan is vitally important in this matter, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch believes that a governmental takeover of health care will be certain once said public plan is implemented. Meanwhile, Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has advised against taxing employer-provided health benefits, despite Montana Senator Max Baucus’ argument for it. Add in Vice-President Joe Biden’s support for this public plan, and one might guess that the Democrats are attempting to tackle multiple viewpoints and courses of action at once. Yet, the American Medical Association may have a problem about this public plan, and they’re not staying quiet about their objections.:
Hot Air: Ed Morrissey: Doctors oppose “public plan” in ObamaCare
The AMA would prefer legislation that leverages private insurance, citing many doctors’ explicit rejection of Medicare, but to explain their basic argument, if Obama’s public plan goes through, then private insurers will end up forced out of health care completely, leaving a single-payer plan as the only option “by default”, to quote Ed Morrissey. One might sense that this political junkie is simply endeavoring to explain the various sides to health care as a political issue inside the United States, and I will certainly welcome the freedom to do so. However, should my favorite early 21st century villain’s current electoral coup accelerate, Obama might have greater trouble in even explaining his position. I can only wonder how far this health care debate will progress this week.
Fox News Channel: Battle Lines Drawn Over Government Health Plan
Fox News Channel: Dodd Resists Tax on Health Care Benefits, Calls Proposal 'Unnecessary'
While Robert Reischauer of the Urban Institute proposes allowing the private sector to bend the cost curve and then unlocking some sort of authority for a public health care plan if that private option fails, Lee Nichols of the New America Foundation notes the basic function of keeping premiums reasonable. However, whereas Iowa Senator Tom Harkin believes that a public plan is vitally important in this matter, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch believes that a governmental takeover of health care will be certain once said public plan is implemented. Meanwhile, Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has advised against taxing employer-provided health benefits, despite Montana Senator Max Baucus’ argument for it. Add in Vice-President Joe Biden’s support for this public plan, and one might guess that the Democrats are attempting to tackle multiple viewpoints and courses of action at once. Yet, the American Medical Association may have a problem about this public plan, and they’re not staying quiet about their objections.:
Hot Air: Ed Morrissey: Doctors oppose “public plan” in ObamaCare
The AMA would prefer legislation that leverages private insurance, citing many doctors’ explicit rejection of Medicare, but to explain their basic argument, if Obama’s public plan goes through, then private insurers will end up forced out of health care completely, leaving a single-payer plan as the only option “by default”, to quote Ed Morrissey. One might sense that this political junkie is simply endeavoring to explain the various sides to health care as a political issue inside the United States, and I will certainly welcome the freedom to do so. However, should my favorite early 21st century villain’s current electoral coup accelerate, Obama might have greater trouble in even explaining his position. I can only wonder how far this health care debate will progress this week.