Snake Oil for America?

Krauthammer of Obama following his Health Care Reform Speech: “He sounded smooth and polished and strong and convincing…and what he was selling was snake oil.”
It looks like the American people are standing in line to buy it. The most recent Rasmussen poll indicates that support for the plan proposed by the president and congressional Democrats has risen to 47%, following the President’s speech on Wednesday. That number is up from 43% at the end of August and from 44% earlier this week. For the first time in weeks opposition to the plan has fallen below 50% to 49%.
This increase occurred even though: 46% say the quality of care will get worse, 47% say passage of the plan will make the cost of health care go up instead of achieving the stated goal of lowering costs and (even though the President and authors of the bill say differently) 52% of those with insurance say it’s likely that they will have to change their current health care coverage after passage of any congressional health care reform.
So we believe he is lying about rationing, taxpayer-funded abortion, about access to government health care by illegal aliens, and about the monstrous cost of this socialist program – and still we are buying into it. Krauthammer really took issue with Obama’s plan for funding this program:
“When he talked about what would be in his bill and how he would not end up with a dime of deficit, he said it will cost almost $1 trillion dollars and the majority of it, more than half, will come from — what? From removing waste, fraud, and abuse from Medicare. Now, that’s an insult to the intelligence of the American people. That phrase was a joke when it was used by Richard Nixon in 1971!”
Krauthammer goes on to point out the rather obvious question: if there’s all this fraud, waste and abuse in Medicare now (which there definitely is–as there is in most government programs), why not clean it up now? Could it perhaps be that you don’t really want to clean it up? Could it be that deep-down you know that like all socialist programs, human nature makes it almost impossible to really clean up?
And if that’s true of Medicare–which it is–what kind of moron would believe for a second that any government health care system would be better?
It seems to this writer that the American people are ready to mortgage the futures of their children to buy up the snake oil. We have responded to rhetoric. Rhetoric crafted and delivered by a man knowledgeable in the building block approach to societal change, and a man who admitted in an interview last night with 60 Minutes that he plans to be president for a “while”, and so is invested in the success of health care reform. This president (unless he plans to serve more than the permitted 2 terms) would never bear the consequence of failure. The current legislation is not planned to take effect until 2013, which would be his final term. The consequences of failure will belong to us, our children and our grand children