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Released: January 10, 2012
Obama needs to find his backbone on healthcare reform
Source: David Lazarus, L.A.Times (Free Registration)
It’s wrong to call the president of the United States a weenie. So I’ll just say instead that perhaps President Obama could show a little more spine when it comes to healthcare reform. Sure, he flexed his muscles last week with the recess appointments of new consumer and labor regulators. But on the healthcare front, Obama has backed off from a “public option” for people who don’t receive coverage from their employer.
He’s settled for extending health insurance to an additional 30 million people when in fact the number of uninsured is closer to 50 million. And now the president has apparently decided to avoid a bruising fight over how much coverage insurance companies should provide, and at what price, when so-called online exchanges open for business in 2014.
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