HALF HEALTHCARE, 100% DEAD

uExpress, June, 2009 by Ted Rall

TUCSON--Half measures are boring.

That political reality derailed Bill Clinton's 1993 healthcare reform plan. And it will likely unravel that of Barack Obama.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office finds that Obama's plan, sponsored by Senators Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy, "would reduce the number of uninsured only by a net 16 million people. Even if the bill became law, the budget office said, 36 million people would remain uninsured in 2017," reported The New York Times . Yet it would cost at least $1 trillion over ten years.

Americans like Obama's basic idea: "Seventy-two percent of those questioned [in the latest Times /CBS News poll] supported a government-administered insurance plan--something like Medicare for those under 65--that would compete for...

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