Obama's Prescription for Health Care AKA the American plan was loaded with well-worn, lofty generalities with few concrete prescriptions - as if Obama were doing a pro-forma listning tour to legitimize pushing through health care reform so he has a big W on his scorecard before the 2010 midterm elections.
Among the definitives, Obama stuck to his defense of the public option as not being a threat to private insurance companies, will cap deductions for donations and other gauzy transfers of payments as the shell game of reform takes place.
The success of the program will be as hard to prove as how many jobs have been saved or created thanks to the stimulus - with an aging population, with comprehensive immigration reform on deck to load the patient rolls, etc. - the administration will have plenty of cover if things don't pan out according to Hoyle.
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