In the past few days while the world's attention has been focused on Iran and North Korea, the Obama healthcare plan has been slipping further away from reality. With cost estimates anywhere from one to three trillion dollars and no realistic way to pay for it, the administration is losing support even in the president's own party.

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As President Obama enjoys his slipping but still high approval rating, there are all sorts of House Representatives and Senators who actually have to get re-elected soon and know that the vast majority of the electorate don't want a tax increase. According to Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California), "[T]here's a lot of concern in the Democratic caucus." (source)

So what can we expect after all these months of promises and platitudes; being told by the president that we must reform healthcare now? I think we can expect what we usually get from this administration: nothing. They've already squandered hundreds of billions of tax dollars on failing businesses and financial institutions. We still don't have that transparent accounting we were promised on hundreds of billions of dollars of stimulus spending. And the economy hasn't been stimulated either. So I have mixed emotions on this healthcare reform that doesn't seem to be getting off the ground. As frustrating as it is that it's all been much ado about probably nothing, at least we won't be forced to pay for another failure.

Of course you never know, Obama & Company just might pull it off and con us out of another few trillion.