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President Obama today abandoned a proposal to bill veterans' private insurance companies for treatment of combat-related injuries after the measure prompted an outcry from veterans service organizations and members of Congress.
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That came off the table quickly, didn't it?
And in result the concept that government-run health care is a good thing has been bolstered. Since billing vet's private insurance idea was a non-starter to begin with, a suspicious person might think that was the intent all along.
Oh, good grief.
Have the vets been taken care of? What has this bolstered, exactly?
The beauty of Obama's 11 dimensional chess
is that there is *nothing* he can do wrong--EVER. There is always some way to "reason" a stupid move into brilliance.
There is little point in debating with someone playing 11 dimensional chess. They play by a completely different set of rules. Rules that can be made malleable to suit their own end.
Only tyrants rig elections.
But...but...but THAT would mean it's (gasp!!!) CALVINBALL!!!!!!!
Aaaaaaagggggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!
JFK has been shot, we miss him a lot
He always knew what to do
-- Philly Cream
Vacuous theorizing aside....
... I'd look further into Orszag's tenure at CBO for the origins of this idea.
Somebody should also take at this (Hipparchia).
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
i've actually been working on that
for the past week or so.
not that particular presentation, though i've seen it before [and thanks for the reminder, i'll try to remember to include it in my post].
everybody and their cousin, all the ones who are behind an obama-type reform anyway, are relying on the dartmouth atlas [pp 27-34 at your link] for their talking points. i've been working on a takedown of that. the atlas itself is way cool, but the interpretations that everybody is getting from it are way off. bad, bad, bad for health policy decisions.
i wrote to drsteveb, asking for help, and he sent me a bunch of lnks to read. i'm wading through them now. he's also considering blogging on it, so you might want to keep an eye on his dkos and pnhp diaries. he writes at a couple of other places around the web too, i think, but can't remember where else just off the top of my head.
Obama will always do the right thing
after he has tried everything else.
More like what?
Abandoning a plan that even the half-interested knew would have been shot down on both sides of the aisle? This was such a lemon coming out of the gate, you wonder who was stupid enough, or had enough gall, to even let this out of the gate in the first place? It's almost as if they were trying to insult the vets. So, it was either an honest mistake, or they were just that dumb. Neither of these scenarios gives me any kind of confidence that they'll ever do the right thing on their own.
As DCblogger just quipped perfectly, it's as if they'll try the right thing only after they've been through everything else.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
There are worse things...
... than the administration trying to sneak a bad idea through, and being forced to stop it by people who kicked up a ruckus about it. Sure, this wasn't a hard issue, but we need to get into practice.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Economists
The economists in the administration think that this is the opportunity to follow "reality-based" policies, for their peculiar ideological version of reality.