WaPo: Obama Health Care Talk Lacks “All Seriousness”

Conn Carroll / April 15, 2009

Cheerleading for his administration’s economic performance yesterday, President Barack Obama said:

I absolutely agree that our long-term deficit is a major problem that we have to fix. … As I will discuss in a moment, the key to dealing with our deficit and debt is to get a handle on out-of-control health care costs
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Fixing our health care system will certainly require resources, but in my budget, we’ve made a commitment to fully pay for reform without increasing the deficit, and we’ve identified specific savings that will make the health care system more efficient and reduce costs for us all.
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Nothing will be more important to this goal than passing health care reform that brings down costs across the system, including in Medicare and Medicaid. Make no mistake: health care reform is entitlement reform.

The Washington Post was not terribly impressed with President Obama’s tough health care talk: (more…)