Krauthammer on Obama's declining poll number
Charles Krauthammer always writes a good column and today he examines Obama's declining poll numbers. I find his take on the health care bill, which he just kind of casually tosses into the mix of his column, to be really inciteful:
"Then, the keystone: a health care revolution in which the federal government will regulate in crushing detail one-sixth of the U.S. economy. By essentially abolishing medical underwriting (actuarially based risk assessment) and replacing it with government fiat, Obamacare turns the health insurance companies into utilities, their every significant move dictated by government regulators. The public option was a sideshow. As many on the right have long been arguing, and as the more astute on the left (such as The New Yorker's James Surowiecki) understand, Obamacare is government health care by proxy, single-payer through a facade of nominally "private" insurers."

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