“President Obama drew sustained laughter from Congress, especially Democrats, on Wednesday when he declared in his State of the Union speech that ‘by now it should be fairly obvious that I didn’t take on health care because it was good politics.’ But after spending 2009 emphasizing that a health care overhaul was his top domestic priority, Mr. Obama gave it much less prominence in his address. He did not mention it until more than half an hour in — a sign of how imperiled the bill has become.” (New York Times, Thursday)
The solution is the same for both: back off.
FEE Timely Classic
“Loved to Death: America’s Unresolved Health-Care Crisis” by Michael J. Hurd
Thursday, January 28, 2010