A Suggestion for Obama's Exit Strategy

Charles Krauthammer is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner, 1984 National Magazine Award winner, and a columnist for The Washington Post since 1985. He explains what Obama and the Democrats can do to escape from the hell of health care reform, and why it will eventually lead to a single-payer system.

In summary, here are his ideas:

1. Forget the single payer system.


2. Get rid of end-of-life counseling in the bills.


3. Speak only quietly about health committees making health care best practices.


4. Don't talk about this cutting costs.


5. Sell the sizzle, not the steak.

This will create a bill that even Republicans will jump on, because it stresses the private sector and de-emphasizes government intervention.

The rub? The government so heavy-handedly determines not only what the insurance companies cover, but how much they make off it. Government expenditures on health care go through the roof and it gets so bad the people see only one option left: because private enterprise has "failed", government must step in and take care of it. Then comes the rationing.

And people will jump for it, because we have seen time and again with welfare, Medicare/Medicaid and more, once people start suckling on the government teat, no pain is too great to stay on it.

The article can be found here.