THE HILL: Analysis: Obama speech to Congress unlikely to be game changer.

UPDATE: Arnold Kling:

He said,

Reducing the waste and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid will pay for most of this plan.

And if we don’t pass this plan, does he intend to keep the waste and inefficiency, out of spite?

Ouch.

Related: And You Thought This Was All About Health Care. “The simple truth is that for the single biggest advocacy bloc pushing the health care bill, your health is the furthest thing from their mind. Their objective is to use the bill to make it easier to unionize health care workers, which certainly won’t enhance patient care, and to advance the larger goals of organized labor as a whole, and use the resulting debt from the administration to push through the noxious ‘card check’ bill through despite public opposition.”