Should Obama Sell Health Care British Style?
When discussing health care on ABC’s “This Week’’ roundtable on Sunday and its chances of success, Liz Cheney weighed-in to say “what I would like to see is President Obama take some questions…he’s not answering questions, he’s not speaking out…’’ And Cheney might have a point. If the White House expects Congress to pass this bill before his State of the Union address later this month, there are still lingering questions that have yet to be squared, such as taxpayer funding for abortions, the excise tax (taxing high-cost insurance policies), and why Congress will reconcile the final version of this bill behind closed doors, something Mr. Obama pledged he would never do during the campaign. Even California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, once a solid supporter of health care reform, lashed out recently that the bill has “become a trough of bribes, deals and loopholes.’’ All the question marks hanging over this bill, is starting to take a heavy toll on the President’s approval rating.
