There are some
rumors that the administration wants to distance itself from the slang
“Obamacare,” a term the president embraced in the 2012 campaign but now finds
hurtful to his polls and his colleagues in the Congress. But what would be
alternatives? We know the official name, “The Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act,” has now become Orwellian and simply cannot be used. Millions of
patients are not being protected, but losing their coverage — with more to
come. So far those receiving notices of steep premium hikes outnumber those who
are handed the promised “$2,500” year in savings. At least, I have not heard of
too many Americans who received notices apprising them of “affordable” expanded
coverage at a $208 savings per month in their premiums……
At some critical
point, everyone makes choices based on incentives and his own perception of
self-interest. Somehow the Obama administration has forgotten that natural law.
A therapeutic sense
of self-sacrifice is fine in the abstract, but in the concrete such magnanimity
causes far more harm to the innocent than does a realistic appraisal of
self-interest and a tragic acceptance of the flawed nature of man. The theme of
the present administration is that it possesses the wisdom and resources to
know better what people should do than they do themselves. From that premise
arose most of catastrophes that have befallen this administration….
Peace for Our Time, November 24, 2013
The
Iranian agreement comes not in isolation, unfortunately. The Syrian debacle
instructed the Iranians that the Obama administration was more interested in
announcing a peaceful breakthrough than actually achieving it. The timing is
convenient for both sides: The Obama administration needed an offset abroad to
the Obamacare disaster, and the Iranians want a breathing space to rebuild
their finances and ensure that Assad can salvage the Iranian-Hezbollah-Assad
axis. The agreement is a de facto acknowledgement that containing, not ending,
Iran’s nuclear program is now U.S. policy….
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