I'm going to continue throwing smart rocks at Obama because he's a fun target. My search for ammo takes me far and wide. Here's an interesting piece from the WSJ. I excerpt.
Put simply, the McCain plan seeks to remedy a distortion in the health-care market that economists have spent decades begging politicians to fix: The tax code subsidizes insurance only if it is provided through employers. Individuals can't take the same tax deduction for buying insurance that businesses can. So Mr. McCain wants to "spread the wealth" of these tax breaks to individuals of any income through a refundable tax credit, no matter where they get coverage.
"The fact that the tax subsidy, which supports the employer-sponsored system, is better than nothing is a feeble excuse for resisting any changes to the status quo." That's not John McCain's judgment. It's a quote from Jason Furman, who happens to be Mr. Obama's economic policy director. In a cri de coeur published in the journal Democracy in 2006, Mr. Furman implored fellow Democrats and other progressives to confront "a critical missing link" in their health ideology -- the same link his boss now spends most of his time demagoguing.
So here looks to be something that I might, if I chose to be charitable, spin towards evidence of Obama's moderation - which is to say from a pool of moderate advisors, the claim on a similar plan to McCain's would score points. But I prefer to take the cynical angle which is that Obama's facility in being a media dominatrix scares otherwise reasonable people into shutting the hell up, lest he throw them under the Obama bus.
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