This Just Begs To Be Fisked

I'll let someone else fisk the crap in this op-ed from the New York Times by Obama.

But seriously, if you have to put all this effort into "convincing" Americans and its still not working, you're either incapable of leading, have a bad idea to begin with or (my inclination) both.

Oh I can't resist...

Second, reform will finally bring skyrocketing health care costs under control, which will mean real savings for families, businesses and our government. We’ll cut hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and inefficiency in federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid and in unwarranted subsidies to insurance companies that do nothing to improve care and everything to improve their profits.

Really?

How will it bring down the "skyrocketing costs" if you can't bring down the skyrocketing costs of Medicare and Medicaid?

Why can't you cut the billions of dollars in waste and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid first to PROVE you can do it with a whole new government bureaucracy that is going to cost billions of dollars to set up in the first place?

Why do we need a new government bureaucracy?

Why not simply expand the existing government programs to include more income groups?

And what are the "unwarranted subsidies to insurance companies"?

What about the unwarranted farm, sugar, and alternative energy subsidies?

Why not get rid of those to free up discretionary funding for a genuine overhaul of Medicare and Medicaid.

While not a real fisking per se, I think having seven questions immediately pop into mind from one paragraph of this pathetic "believe me" pleading from Obama is a fairly obvious sign that my second statement of this post is fairly accurate.