Hearts and Flowers

I just watched President Obama’s news conference in which he rolled back for another year (extra-legally I assume) the ability of “Bad Apple” health-care insurers to cancel existing policies … so that the pledges he made over the last three years would once again be operative.  And, you know, he did have me convinced that he was sincere in his attempt to right these previous wrongs … at least for a while.  And, by the way, he also asked that we not blame all those Democrat Congress persons who had repeated his pledge … it was our … er, his fault alone.

He is good … really, really good in his ability to sell chicken-bleep and call it chicken salad.  And while he was at it he also vowed that the “majority” of Americans would be able to use the HealthCare.gov website come November 30^th/December 1^st without major problems.  (So, if 100 people try to use this website, 51 will be somewhat successful?) 

In other words the birds are singing … the flowers are blooming … and he still loves us, the American people, and wants us to love him. And you know what?  He might make just make it happen.  This reminds me of how a battered wife refuses to testify against her bully husband at the police station … her misguided love overcomes her common sense.

Now, the ogres in this tragedy will be the Bad-Apple insurance companies because they won’t be able to turn on a dime and do what our fearless, feckless leader has just promised to the American public.  President Obama will once again be a innocent bystander at a thirty car pile-up.

Afterward: Much as I am tempted to feel sorry for the U.S. health-care insurers, this pity is mitigated by the fact that they did make a pact with the devil three years ago.  In a sense they may be indeed getting what they rightfully deserve.