Sunday, July 19, 2009

Obama Being Widely Underestimated - Again

Health care reform is coming.
It will be better than the House bill. It will have a public insurance option to rival private insurers. Sorry Mitch.
McConnell is so extreme, he opposes Sonia Sotomayor.
The bill might come later than August, especially if moderate republicans, such as Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are truly on board, which they seem to be.
Obama is challenged by the left, who really want health care to be run by the government and the right, who don't want reform at all.
Kathleen Sebelius says reform (there are about five different plans) is still a work in progress. They are going after fraud and abuse and looking for ways to cut costs, she said. That's contrary to what the republicans have been saying. Sebelius says it will be paid for and it won't add to the deficit.
The media is still playing health care reform as a political football, which disturbs me.
And it's all on this week's Meet the Press: