{"id":5684,"date":"2009-08-24T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/08\/health-care-reform-democare.html"},"modified":"2009-08-24T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T16:59:00","slug":"health-care-reform-democare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/08\/health-care-reform-democare.html","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Reform: DemoCare?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ObamaGrav.jpg\"<\/span>I’ve gotten enough pushback on using “Obamacare” for the health care proposals that I’m changing this to the more cumbersome “health care reform,” but for me “Obamacare” is not about a top-down heavy-handed left-wing attempt to socialize our country, but instead simply the health care proposals that Obama is guiding as President. Having said that, Douthat’s new piece in the NYTimes<\/i> <\/a>makes a potent point about where the center of power lies in this debate:<\/p>\n

“In reality, the health care wrestling match is less a test of Mr.
\nObama’s political genius than it is a test of the Democratic Party’s
\nability to govern….<\/i><\/p>\n

If the Congressional Democrats can’t get a health care
\npackage through, it won’t prove that President Obama is a sellout or an
\nincompetent. It will prove that Congress’s liberal leaders are lousy
\ntacticians, and that its centrist deal-makers are deal-makers first,
\npoll watchers second and loyal Democrats a distant third. And it will
\nprove that the Democratic Party is institutionally incapable of
\ndelivering on its most significant promises. <\/i><\/p>\n

You have to assume
\nthat on some level Congress understands this — which is why you also
\nhave to assume that some kind of legislation will eventually pass. <\/i><\/p>\n

If it doesn’t, President Obama will have been defeated. But it’s the party, not the president, that will have failed.”<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve gotten enough pushback on using “Obamacare” for the health care proposals that I’m changing this to the more cumbersome “health care reform,” but for me “Obamacare” is not about a top-down heavy-handed left-wing attempt to socialize our country, but instead simply the health care proposals that Obama is guiding as President. 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