The national healthcare debate, ’winger pseudo-debate aside, gets more interesting by the day. The latest? The Obama Administration’s claim that a deal with Big Pharma a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/us/08lobby.html"is NOT written in stone/a, at least not in the details.br /br /Ultimately, though, this gets back to two problems with the Administration.br /br /One, of course, is that Obama simply didn’t show enough leadership at the start of the legislative process. And, what statements he did make were themselves not written in stone as to priorities, non-negotiables, etc.br /br /Second is an overstaffed White House staff, in my opinion. Who speaks with what authority, what clearance, and what advance interoffice communication? Details a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/us/08lobby.html"in the article/a show these are all continuing issues.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-2608894857024015132?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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