A little bit on Obama’s drop in the polls and his usage of his popularity to effect change…….
We all know that Healthcare is driving the President’s poll numbers down ( he’s doing all right with the economy, but no one’s looking right now ) …… but I for one, believe that people still believe in Obama personally. Tom Schaller, asks in FiveThirtyEight , how has Obama used his political capital ( or popularity)?…..
Schaller gives four ways that Obama has worked it……..1) Obama has spend his political capital freely…not holding back…..2) Obama has worked it, thinking of the future…..3) Did Obama misjudge the push back on healthcare….thinking it ( the capital/popularity) would negate the opposition…… 4)In spite of it, he got mugged……Schaller’s piece is good… and he provides a graphic up front in the piece also……
As for me……For the past nine months I believe that Obama has been true to his campaign speeches for the Presidency…. Using his capital and popularity to effect change in the basic sense……he has challenged the status quo in that the congress, political parties and executive branches don’t want to deal with this HUGE issue…
This is what he promised America to get elected…..and he is in it for the ‘Longhaul’, and as I posted on August 16th……..also….as I posted on August 13…… this is Politics…and it will be up to Obama to ‘ decide if he goes for the jugular, with the Bluedogs, and Republicans, or dances around the ‘Public Option’ (which Liberals, and Progressives have made a beachhead ) issue’….
Update: A look back at August shows that things wasn’t so bad for Obama, who has swung back up in the polls…………
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Political News From Reuters…..- House heads toward close healthcare vote March 16, 2010WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats took the first step on Monday toward a quick final vote on a healthcare overhaul and House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed to muster the votes needed to pass it.
- Sen Dodd boosts Fed in new financial reforms March 15, 2010WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve would take on a greatly expanded role in financial regulation under new legislation unveiled on Monday by a top Senate Democrat, in a push to move ahead with the regulatory reform that has been a top priority of President Barack Obama.
- Fed saves some regulatory authority in Dodd plan March 15, 2010WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve would retain some but not all of its oversight powers in the changed financial landscape envisioned by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd in a plan unveiled on Monday.
- House heads toward close healthcare vote March 16, 2010
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Have you considered that the health care cost issue is unsolvable? Public plan or coop plan, individual mandate or not…remove all the waste or not. Some of these things might extend the ‘affordability’ but so long as we have inelastic demand for health care, there are more and more services, procedures and drugs and someone else is paying the bill — health care trend will out strip general inflation, wages and revenue growth.
That’s why they are only quoting the first 10 years of cost, the changes only kick in, in 2013 (four years hence) and the costs really kick in after the first ten years.
Follow all this at http://www.ilovebenefits.wordpress.com and other health care delivery issues.
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ILB………that answer is simply not good enough…..for the past decade everyone has walked around the issue because IT IS radioactive…….Obama gets props I write, because he’s going ‘head on’ at it…..he has declared that waste is one of things he expects congress to address……sooner or later, if left alone, the cost WILL destroy the economy, I agree……..which is why people need to get on board trying to deal with the issue NOW……..
and Obama has said over and over….he’s flexible……..and the media is shinning a spot light on the issue………..( and fostering a lot of untruths…..but that’s another post……)
I think eventually Obama will have to drop the idea that people will be able to pay a medicare premium and receive health insurance as a public option. A government cooperative is a very hard thing to sell, and a very difficult thing to implement. However, if he is able to throw his weight behind the cooperative plan and is able to get the specifics close enough to being right he may be able to improve the health care system rather than completely change it. He will have to throw the liberal wing of the Democratic Party a bone someone down the line if he expects them to “stand down” on the public option.
You might be right……….he’ll weigh his options…I think the main thing will be getting a bill….period……..