Happy Tuesday folks,
Politico’s Jonathan Allen and Carrie Budoff Brown recently pointed out that the Administration’s use of “issue roulette” by a “White House on the defensive” is an attempt to show that “Healthcare[dot] will not paralyze the president’s second term.
This attempt has not been working well. While President Obama trots around the country for campaign-style rallies (Dallas on Wednesday; New Orleans on Friday), the website problems continue
According to Christopher Weaver and Timothy W. Martin of The Wall Street Journal, the “digital snafus” will prevent “younger, healthier customers who feel less need for insurance- but whose widespread participation is important to the financial success of the system-” from signing up for Obamacare.
But maybe we should give the Administration credit. After all, they are right to say it’s not only the website’s failures that will paralyze President Obama’s second term.
Other issues like insurance policy cancellations (and their more-expensive replacements), a stagnant labor market, the failure to focus on growing the economy, and $17 trillion of national debt will take some of the heat off the website debacle.
And because of these policy decisions, the future just isn’t what it used to be.
According to a recent Gallup survey, Americans’ satisfaction “with the future facing them and their families” is at the lowest rate (63 percent) since the mid 1970s.
Addtionally, Americans’ satisfaction with their present family/household income is as at its lowest point in nearly 25 years.
A growth-based agenda that lowers costs for things like healthcare, energy, and education, is more important to American families than a focus on pet-projects and campaign-style rallies.
Seize the day.