M2RB:
Nowhere to
run to, baby
Nowhere to
hide
Got nowhere
to run to, baby
Nowhere to
hide
It's not
love
I'm running
from
It's the
heartaches
That I know
will come
By Walter Russell Mead
Powerful Democrats who helped write and
pass Obamacare subjected the new law’s chief administrator to withering
criticism at a Senate hearing yesterday. Gary Cohen, the director of
the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, testified before
the Senate Finance Committee, and the Democrats on the committee—from
its Chairman Max Baucus to Senators Ron Wyden, Bill Nelson, and Maria
Cantwell—tore into him. Kaiser Health News has
more:
Wyden
pressed Cohen to help find ways to resolve a glitch in the law which may result
in the denial of federal assistance to millions of Americans of modest means
who could be priced out of family health coverage at work….
“We’ve
got millions of people—working-class, middle-class people—who are going to be
pushed into a regulatory health coverage no man’s land,” Wyden said. “They are
unable to afford the family coverage through their employer and ineligible for
the subsidy that could be used by dependents on the exchange.”
And that’s just one senator. Each had his
or her own complaints about different parts of the law’s implementation, from
its elimination of funding for insurance co-operatives to the failure to meet
important deadlines. The criticisms came fast and furious:
“You
are overwhelmed by the details and technology, I get that point…. It seems as
if the agency is taking pages out of the law,” she [Cantwell] said….
“The
people of Florida are going to suffer,” he [Nelson] told Cohen. “I want someone
to be held accountable for this.”
The about-face of these Democrats is a
phenomenon worth pausing over. Many formerly
supportive constituencies have grown wary of Obamacare in recent weeks
as we’ve learned more about the
effects it will have on the health care system. But these Senators’
180-degree turns are something more severe.
The fate of the Democratic party in
America over the next decade is tied to Obama’s healthcare reform. If it is
seen to be a success, America could trend Democratic for the foreseeable
future. If it fails, liberalism as we’ve known it will take a massive hit. But,
so far, support for Obamacare has been waning instead of waxing. Even a recent
piece by Talking Points Memo that placed
the blame for Obamacare’s potential failure on Republicans noted that the
law’s unpopularity with the public at large was the number one threat to its
success. Democrats are getting nervous and consequently are trying to
put some distance between themselves and the ACA.
We don’t blame them for trying, but it
may be a futile effort. For better or worse, their fates are now tied to that
of Obamacare.
Nowhere To Run To, Baby -
Nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
It's not love
I'm running from
It's the heartaches
That I know will come
'Cause I know
You're no good for me
But you`ve become
A part of me
Everywhere I go
Your face I see
Every step I take
You take with me, yeah
Nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
I know you're
No good for me
But free of you
I'll never be, no
Each night as I sleep
Into my heart you creep
I wake up feeling sorry I met you
Hoping soon that I'll forget you
When I look in the mirror
And comb my hair
I see your face
Just a-smiling there
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
I know you're
No good for me
But you've become
A part of me
How can I fight a lover
That's sugar sweet
When it's so deep, so deep
Deep inside of me
My love reaches so high
I can't get over it
It's so wide
I can't get around it, no
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
From you, baby
Just can't get away
No matter how I try
I know you're no good for me
But free of you I'll never be
Nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run
Got nowhere to run
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