Friday, January 25, 2013

A Cure for Healthcare Costs

So a left-of-center president delivered a left-of-center inaugural address–how shocking is that? Barack Obama is a winner, and he acted like one on Monday; he can be a liberal now. He is, after all, entering into a select club within a select club: assuming that all goes well for him, he will be just the 14th American president to serve two full terms in office.
But when the panegyrics have died down, Obama will confront the problem that every president re-elected since the passage of the 22nd Amendment is also a lame-duck president. And in spite of years of negotiations in his first term alone, no one, least of all Obama, has solved the looming problem of healthcare—which is the root of our spending and entitlement troubles.

Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-cure-for-healthcare-costs/

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