Cold dead wet fish to the face
Final health bill omits some of Obama’s promises
It was a bold response to skyrocketing health insurance premiums. President Barack Obama would give federal authorities the power to block unreasonable rate hikes.
Yet when Democrats unveiled the final, incarnation of their health care bill this week, the proposal was nowhere to be found.
Ditto with several Republican ideas that Obama had said he wanted to include after a televised bipartisan summit last month, including a plan by Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma to send investigators disguised as patients to hospitals in search of waste, fraud and abuse.
And those “special deals” that Obama railed against and said he wanted to eliminate? With the exception of two of the most notorious — extra Medicaid money for Nebraska and a carve-out for Florida seniors faced with losing certain extra Medicare benefits — they are all still there.
The SF Chronicle does give it a nice try in attempting to not Blame Obama for being a lying liar, and, granted, we just cannot hold Obama responsible for everything that goes wrong, like the left did with Bush. That said, when someone makes a promise, it is expected that one attempt to keep that promise. Alas, with Obama, every promise has an expiration date.
