The Washington Post endorsed Obama — indeed, it hasn’t endorsed a Republican for president since 1952 — but a lot of Washington Post columnists are not enthusiastic about his health-care plan, which is costly, obsolete, deceptive, and harmful.

Obama’s plan would just aggravate the status quo and increase skyrocketing health-care costs, says veteran editorialist Robert J. Samuelson: “One of the bewildering ironies of the health-care debate is that President Obama claims to be attacking the status quo when he’s actually embracing…

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Until it was publicly-exposed, the Washington Post was selling its access to the White House to lobbyists. As Politico reported, “For $25,000 to $250,000, the Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to ‘those powerful few’ — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors. The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels…

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