David Brooks, "Health Chaos Ahead": Is Obama's Golf Game Improving? Everything Else Is Turning to S#$%

Is Obama's golf game getting any better under the tutelage of Tiger Woods? I hope so, because everything else he has touched is turning to s#$%.

As acknowledged by Paul Krugman today, the economy remains stuck (see: http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.co.il/2013/04/paul-krugman-1-percents-solution-dont.html).

And foreign policy is a shambles. One day after Chuck Hagel, Obama's new secretary of defense who cannot even string a sentence together, told us that it is unclear whether John Kerry's "dear friend" Bashar al-Assad is using chemical weapons against Syrian rebels (see: http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.co.il/2013/04/chuck-hagel-opines-on-syria-is-americas.html), this moron is now acknowledging that Assad indeed used such weapons (see: http://news.yahoo.com/hagel-says-syria-used-chemical-weapons-155008837--politics.html).

At least someone had the good sense to tell Hagel to read his retraction.

Hagel said that the US needs to consult with its allies to determine whether Assad crossed the "red line" drawn by Obama. How's that for leadership?

But wait, it gets better!

Today, in a New York Times op-ed entitled "Health Chaos Ahead" (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/opinion/brooks-health-chaos-ahead.html?_r=0), David Brooks informs us that Obama's signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act, is proving not so affordable. Brooks writes:

"By now, everybody involved seems to be in a state of anxiety. Insurance companies are trying to put out new products, but they don’t know what federal parameters they have to meet. Small businesses are angry because the provisions that benefited them have been put on the back burner. Health care systems are highly frustrated. They can’t plan without a road map. Senator Max Baucus, one of the authors of the law, says he sees a 'huge train wreck' coming."

Obamacare's cost? Brooks writes:

"Nearly everybody not in the employ of the administration agrees this law does not solve the cost problem, and many of the recent regulatory decisions will send costs higher. A study in California found that premiums could increase by an average of 20 percent for people not covered by federal subsidies. A study by the Society of Actuaries found that by 2017 costs could rise by 32 percent for insurers covering people in the individual exchanges, and as high as 80 percent in states like Ohio."

Can it get worse? As Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat once observed:

"But that is not all!
Oh, no.
That is not all . . ."