By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009).

Quote Freely From The Article – Leave The Pseudonym Alone

If you have never heard of Fareed Zakaria, you have missed something in life. That’s especially true in these times. Zakaria is a man who is difficult to label. He is a Muslim who believes that wine is worth writing about AND drinking. He not only writes about wine, he writes about the economy and economics in detail. He has been referred to a neo-conservative, but he probably is not, in fact,  a neocon. It is likely that he is best seated as a moderate. Zakaria recently wrote something which appeared in the Washington Post, and is to appear in Newsweek print edition the week of November 16th. Conservatives would do well to study and heed what he has to say.

The article in its entirety is found here, The Rise Of The Right,  but what Zakaria has to say about the health care issue is so spot on, that it should give conservatives a clue about what to do:

On health care, however, the story looks different. There are two great health-care crises in America—one in-volving coverage and the other cost. The Obama plan appears likely to tackle the first but not the second. This is bad economics but also bad politics: the crisis of cost affects 85 percent of Americans, while the crisis of coverage affects about 15 percent. Obama’s message to the country appears to be “We have a dysfunctional health-care system with out-of-control costs, and let’s add 45 million people to it.”

I can’t think of anything that describes the problem with the health care bill passed by Pelosi’s House of Cards, that describes the situation so succinctly.  Zacharia offers more and conservatives should take care to get the message or suffer the consequences:

Americans see a health-care bill that has been produced by the old Democratic machine rather than the new Democratic technocrats—more Lyndon Johnson than Larry Summers. That might please the party’s base but it will dismay independents. Were costs to rocket over the next few years, the Democrats will have squandered a reputation for economic competence that was hard won.

The above paragraph is Zacharia’s next to the last in this article. Don’t miss the last paragraph. To do so will cause you to miss the string which helps to wrap the article up tight.

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