{"id":5263,"date":"2009-08-16T19:15:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T00:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2009-08-16T19:15:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T00:15:33","slug":"cave-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5263","title":{"rendered":"Cave In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America stepped up and took the wind out of the sails of the Obama administration&#8217;s plan to socialize America&#8217;s health care system.<\/p>\n<p>It was not Republicans nor Blue Dog Democrats that derailed Jimmy II&#8217;s grand plan &#8211; credit this one to vociferous citizens exercising their rights, rescuing America from the brink of yet another irreversible government entitlement, and indicating a potential mid-term rout of Democratic ranks nationwide if they didn&#8217;t reverse course.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/us_health_care_overhaul\">Bowing to Republican pressure<\/a> and an uneasy public, President  Barack Obama&#8217;s administration signaled Sunday it is ready to abandon the  idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new  health care system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was never intended to be an <em>option<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Obama gets off the gas and on the back-pedal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;All I&#8217;m saying is, though, that the public option, whether we have it or we  don&#8217;t have it, is not the entirety of <span style=\"border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial\" id=\"lw_1250456124_7\" class=\"yshortcuts\">health  care reform<\/span>,&#8221; Obama said at a town hall meeting in Grand Junction, Colo.  &#8220;This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think he said that just as he spied a cream pie with his name on it in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how liberal Dems spin this, it is a sound and stinging defeat in the wake of a Democratic super-majority.<\/p>\n<p>The plan now may be to create a member-run non-profit option to compete with private insurers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but that may be moot. It may be more over than Obama is willing to concede at this juncture.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/08\/16\/tx-dem-bill-without-public-option-would-be-very-very-difficult\/\">On the same day<\/a> that a Cabinet member signaled the administration\u2019s willingness  to forego inclusion of a public health insurance option in the final version of  health care reform legislation, a Texas Democrat who is also a registered nurse  suggested that the public option might be a deal breaker for at least some House  Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for Change<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America stepped up and took the wind out of the sails of the Obama administration&#8217;s plan to socialize America&#8217;s health care system. It was not Republicans nor Blue Dog Democrats that derailed Jimmy II&#8217;s grand plan &#8211; credit this one to vociferous citizens exercising their rights, rescuing America from the brink of yet another irreversible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}