Sugar Coated Obama Care Doesn't Go Down Any Easier

When I was young and had to take a particularly nasty medication, my father would often add sugar to the dosage in a feeble attempt to make it taste better. Apparently Obama has taken a page from my father's play-book when it comes to his goal of shoving government-controlled healthcare down the throat of every American.

[From USA Today, 02.28.11:]

President Obama told Republican state governors today that they can offer alternatives to his federal health care plan as soon as 2014, so long as they meet the new requirements for covering the uninsured....Under the plan, states could opt out of the federal health care package if they could prove that other methods would enable them to cover as many people....

Like myself, the WSJ and the states aren't falling for the trick either.

[The WSJ, 03.03.11:]
Mr. Obama's new faith in federalism is trailed by his customary rhetorical asterisk. Any state that the Administration decided deserved a waiver would still need to cover the same number of uninsured, and its coverage would still need to include the same comprehensive benefits and be as "affordable" as the Administration says it should be. That is, it must be as heavily subsidized.

[Bloomberg Businessweek, 03.02.11, quote of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal:]

"Anything that gives the states more flexibility is a positive thing, but this doesn't go far enough," Jindal said. "We believe the best thing to do is to repeal Obamacare, to replace it."

Any way you look at it, a lump of sugar doesn't change anything. Bad medicine is bad medicine.

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