Oprah Obama

I walked into our usual lunch place yesterday and saw Obama on TV. Again. I asked if anyone thought Oprah was going to start resenting the competition, seeing as how this has become a regular activity. He ought to get a sidekick and a band, eh?

His main points seemed to be:

• We're going to expand coverage. 40 million out of 300 million is about 13%, rather a lot.
  
• Nobody is going to be denied anything. In fact, your choices are going to increase.
• We're going to cut costs.

I'm not really sure he understands that those three goals are nearly incompatible. The only way out is to dramatically increase the efficiency of each dollar spent. So assuming that they assume that, they have a policy that consists of four major policy goals, each of which would be difficult by itself.

Also, Waxman and his committee are tackling global warming, they're talking about immigration reform again, I'm sure someone wants to reform the finance industry.

Forgive me if I'm skeptical about the likely outcomes.