Obama's Historic Health-Care Victory

The president's political mastery is on a par with FDR and LBJ.

By ROBERT DALLEK

The hundred years' war over national health insurance is coming to an end. Or is it? Even if Congress passes a bill in January, as seems very likely, the fight won't end. While the results of the law play themselves out over the next few years, we will continue to hear charges and countercharges over the virtues and defects of the new system.

If the reform works as intended by expanding health insurance to an additional 30 million Americans and reducing the national debt, the Democrats will pillory the Republicans for the indefinite future. (Emphasis added)  The GOP's uniform opposition—only one congressman and no Republican senators supported the bill—will make it vulnerable to charges of wrong-minded thinking about the suffering of fellow citizens on a scale with Herbert Hoover's failed response to the Great Depression. That cost his party five presidential elections.

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That's a pretty big IF.  From what I have read right here, a good chunk of the 30 million Americans cannot afford the insurance at the cost levels that the policy pundits state it will become available at the lowest income category. So, more improvement is definitely needed.

The real cost of health care on the nation has not gone down; in fact it has gone up with the addition of government "services" into the equation.