Legal Commentary

Obama Weekly Address: On The Health Insurance Issue

By Big Tent Democrat

It's general pablum about the need to "reform" the health insurance system. It would be more meaningful if the President was supporting proposals to actually reform the health insurance system in a meaningful way. The White House is not. It has pushed for the feeble Senate health bill that does nothing meaningful on reform, though it does expand Medicaid and offer, albeit inadequate, subsidies for the purchase of health insurance. To call it a band aid is an insult to band aids. Would it be a first step? Well, the proponents of the bill like to say it will be decades before health insurance reform is addressed again, so by their own logic, it is the last step for some time. Either the crisis is not quite so desperate, which seems wrong, or the notion of doing anything, however feeble, is the logic of the day. Not very inspiring.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 20, 2010 (boomark / email).