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Recently our host (Go Go Gadget…) and various others around the blogosphere were celebrating a health care bounce in Obama’s poll numbers, as shown by Pollster.com with Sensitivity: High.
I thought it way too early for this conclusion, and commented we should check back in a week or two with default sensitivity.
It’s been two weeks, so let’s have a gander:
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Amy Townsend, 38, of Hurst was preparing last week for yet another round of treatments in her battle against breast cancer.
In addition to steeling herself for possible side effects, she and husband Jesse, 43, were preparing for the possibility that they might have to pay hundreds of dollars, up front, before radiation treatment can begin.
With both Amy and Jesse unemployed, the family buys health insurance through COBRA with a $5,500 yearly maximum for out-of-pocket expenses — a threshold the family has not yet met. COBRA coverage generally lasts up to 18 months.
“We’ve got to come up with some money for next week,” she said.
Though she still faces medical bills, Amy said she was against the health care act, fearing so-called death panels and government inefficiency. [emphasis added]
Former Bush speechwriter David Frum pulls no punches in an article from yesterday:
At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994.This time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none.
Today will truly be a day that, decades from now, our children’s children will look back upon in textbooks and reflect that America was still capable of doing something for its people.
THE GRAPEVINE
