Did anyone notice the subtle but telling change in Obama’s healthcare rhetoric in his radio address yesterday? Healthcare reform is now health insurance reform. Guess the WH insider polling showed Americans were seeing through the government heavy handedness and rationing disguised as “30% of healthcare is unnecessary”. So now it’s health insurance reform hoping to capture the general disdain that a huge portion of Americans have for health insurance companies. The real deceit however is that government and health insurers share the same goal–reduce payouts for healthcare and tighter restrictions on expensive yet lifesaving healthcare. No matter how they dress it up, healthcare reform is about reducing costs to “the system” at the expense of the patient.
