Obamacare's
Bitter Pill For Israel
For American taxpayers, the devil is in the
details of the new health care law. But for
the Jewish people and the State of Israel
the devil is in the comparison between
Barack Obama's steamrollering of health care
legislation and his developing Middle East
policy. The president succeeded in enacting
health care reform - something many of his
predecessors had attempted but failed. But
that's not because those past presidents
didn't want universal healthcare or weren't
as passionate or concerned about the need
for reform. It was just that - for them -
the proposals were either unworkable or the
cost was simply too high. Or perhaps a
mixture of both. But for Obama, none of that
mattered - not that the legislation was
viewed by many as deeply flawed, or that
there would not be enough doctors to handle
the new system, or that it appeared there
might not be enough votes to get it through,
or that the cost was so high it might
bankrupt the country. The data could always
be fudged, and the numbers double-counted.
And if there weren't enough votes they could
use devices like "reconciliation"
or "deeming." And to heck with the
price - what's a trillion dollars anyway?
Not that much more than the stimulus
package, and Americans swallowed that one
without a murmur.