[Pen-l] Benchmarks for Obama - Healthcare

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
I noted Krugman's column in the NY Times wailing about the Healthcare  
industry preparing a counter attack against Healthcare reform.  I  
think Obama's administration was an electoral response to the failures  
over thirty years of the U.S. systemic approach to the problems  
internally and externally of the global system.  The model being the  
reformist Roosevelt depression administration.  However, Roosevelt's  
administration had a left to contend with and our times don't have an  
internal left organization.  That aside in my view if Obama fails to  
get healthcare even though the democrats are supposedly in control of  
congress, then the reform character of the administration is dead.   
Which leaves the original pressure for reform unchecked and increasing.

I would add that to me the current media campaign to say things are  
past the worst is working for the public mood, but eventually the  
pressures will push past that mood and awaken more desperate feelings  
of a want for change.  Coupled with external pressures against the  
dollar and military adventures combine into a qualitative increase in  
left influences on the national front.

I think it not quite the time to say the reformist candidate Obama has  
failed, but Healthcare definitely is the benchmark that determines  
success or failure of his administration.  To paraphrase after that  
the deluge.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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