Obama outsourced health care and leadership

missed the hot fun this summer. While much of America seemed to be screeching over the incredible – in the truest sense of the word – notion that angry citizens could tote a gun even to a town-hall meeting with the president of the United States, I was pondering the relative merits of bike ride versus beach walk.

The brouhaha that has stripped away the thin veneer of good will that greeted the start of Barack Obama's presidency is over health-care revision, and specifically over something the media keep calling the "Obama health-care plan."

That one stumps me, too, because there is no "Obama health-care plan." Nor has there ever been one. That's part of the problem.

The Obama political strategy has been that the White House would not propose its own health-care legislation, lest it meet the same fate as the Clinton initiative of the early 1990s. The Obama political operation believes the death of the Clinton plan was foretold because Bill Clinton sought to impose a White House blueprint on Congress, rather than letting lawmakers do their own thing.

http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/682688#

For those who care.