GraniteGrok

Certainly, Obama's actions are determining his newly arriving political weakness - Rassmussen has the continuing bad news - a -21 (a new low):

55% hate Obamacare is part of the reason.

Although a bare majority, 51%, still blame Bush for the current economic problems, in no small part, Obama's handling of the economy is not helping.  That "robust" 3rd quarter that was touted to be 3.5%?

Er, not so much - down rated to 2.8% and today down rated to 2.2% (with most of that the Cash for Clunkers).  We're in the best of hands!

He's not doing so well with his Obamacare either - Quinnipiac reports that the public hates the idea 56-37%. For the economy, they report that the public gives him 56% - 37% thrashing in how Obama is creating new jobs...

And the Senators?  Still spending like there were real tax dollars coming in (which they're not - they've "gone Gault")! " Cash for Cloture!"

• PA, NY, and FL all get to keep the Medicare Advantage program (the rest of the states lose it).
• LA gets $100 million thanks to Mary Landrieu
• CA gets $300 millino for doc payments
• Unions get $10 Billion for underfunded medical funds
• Ben Nelson from NE gets free Medicaid payments from the Fed ($100 mill to start) FOREVER!
• VT and MA get some too - $1.2 Billion minimum over the next 10 years
• CT, via Chris Dodd (he of the "friends of Angelo" sweet mortgage deal) gets $100 million for a new med school
• Non-profit insurance companies are exempt from the new insurance company tax (cool $7 Billion)
• "Frontier" States get higher Medicaid and doctor payments (as the rest of us see them slashed).
• Iowa gets some "hospital payment" love too (unknown)
• Socialist Bernie Sanders (VT) get $10 Billion for more medical clinics and another $4B for personnel 
• Max Baucus, Montana, gets money for mine workers
• A sop to insurance - our adult children to age 26 will be classified as....children to enable larger family coverage
• AARP get about a $1B and stands to make more with their Medigap program when the Medicaid Advantage gets terminated for most of us.
  

And what it will mean for us?  The people that will have to pay the bills?  Try this for starters for our costs?  And here's more on the tax hikes that will get us all.  We also get to pay for over 100 new committees and government bureaus to regulate us all

Greg Mankiw: 

It is unclear whether such a reduction in the growth rate could be achieved, and if so, whether it would be accomplished through greater efficiencies in the delivery of health care or would reduce access to care or diminish the quality of care.

It is doubtful that even after a decade, if the "uninsured" will actually be covered...we're spending $1.5T and it won't do what the stated goal was supposed to be?

Fortunately, interest by the States (who are about to get porked by Obamacare by skyrocketing unfunded Medicaid mandates) in the power of the 10th Amendment is rising - they are not going to give up without a fight: South Carolina, Michigan, Washington, New Hampshire; more will probably will start looking.

(H/T: Michelle, Michelle, and others surfing around in bits and pieces....)