It's Official - Reconciliation It Is

Pleading the Fif said

I think the demonization, as you put it, will be more a focus on the Obama administration's fiscal irresponsibility and huge-mongous budgets. I agree with you in that minimal changes to healthcare, if any, will be seen in the 8 months leading up to the election but that will not prevent the GOP from railing the Dems on the cost of the bill.

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They will and since any benefits probably won't have started in force by then, they'll get mileage of it for sure.

But the only way it becomes the wedge issue over, say, the economy in general or the employment rate is if care and services start to degrade.

And just like any benefits won't materialize in time to substantially help the Dems, any deficits won't do it in time to substantially hurt them.

Assuming an improving but not exploding economy, health care will be the 2012 wedge issue, not the 2010 one.