Ready…set…yawn? With all of the fanfare surrounding this morning’s healthcare reform summit in Washington, you’d think that its organizers were pulling double duty with producing the upcoming Oscars. We’ve heard the eleventh hour rhetoric from all sides — the potential for bipartisanship at this late stage in the game and how “wonderful” it is to get this forum televised so that the American people can finally acknowledge the transparency President Obama and the White House have always wanted to characterize since he came into power.
But with all of the pomp, circumstance, and…hyperbole surrounding this morning’s summit, it seems the prevailing thought is more of a, well, an afterthought. Although Barack Obama has trumpeted the bipartisan get-together as having the potential to hammer out a last minute deal that will please everyone everywhere, the public seems to have already made up its mind about the state of reform today — and the court of public opinion shows collective ennui over the multiple set-ups for multiple letdowns. Reform fatigue has finally set in.
When the ultimate news item from today’s marathon session will more than likely echo the fact that nothing can be agreed upon of any substance, the public whom Obama so much wanted to convince that reform was within reach has already packed up and moved on. According to one private Medicare exchange‘s polling, approximately 1700 of them have already done so. Mr. President, let the latest installment of this drama begin.
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