Health care promises seem unattainable

It will be interesting to see how the president plans to simultaneously keep his promise of a $2,500 insurance premium rebate for the average American family, while providing coverage to an additional 32 million people.

All that while decreasing health care costs, driving down the deficit and overcoming the threat of 46 percent of physicians leaving the profession. Had the reform bill he signed included any meaningful tort reform or the possibility of insurance competition across state lines, he might have enjoyed bipartisan support from both Republicans and the American people. In addition, the mandate upon everyone to buy insurance or face the wrath of an expanded IRS is clearly unconstitutional and will face a strong challenge in the courts.

Oh, well, the true believers turned out at the Fieldhouse on Thursday to scream themselves hoarse that their messiah has delivered on his goal of moving this country toward a statist utopia.

Richard Jacobson

Coralville