If indeed Obamacare degrades health care (and makes it more expensive and an even bigger hassle) it will prove more of a political liability than an asset.
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And we're reminded today the status quo is expensive, it's expensive and it's directly out of the pockets of millions of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet.
Officials realize that it will never be 100 percent successful, and it is labor-intensive and expensive, but it may very well be among the approaches that U.S. officials will consider as they work out how to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and rehabilitate the 700 or so prisoners.
"I know I've inherited it and I know it's very expensive and it takes up a lot of my estates budget, " said Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner, Christopher Salmon.
The original machine, the J9 One Touch TFT, does have a couple of minor drawbacks, mainly that it is big and it is expensive.
Its ideal location gave rise to trade but also made it difficult and expensive to defend against interlopers.
If a healthcare provider has an existing service in place that they like the EMR vendor will make it difficult and expensive to keep the existing vendor.
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Improvements have been made in image quality with the newer OLED technology, but high manufacturing costs, yield limitations and limited lifetime make it expensive and challenging for all but the smallest devices.
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We tried over the proceeding 5yrs to implement things on a localised basis and it was incredibly expensive and we made very little progress and we cannot have a National Health Service in which information is moved extremely inefficiently by paper.
Like the government-wide review that I ordered last month, we need to obviously strike the right balance - protecting our public health and safety, and making it easier and less expensive for American and Canadians to trade and do business, for example, in the auto industry.
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Which is one reason why eurozone governments and banks are finding it harder and more expensive to borrow - and why, with all those debts falling due in 2012, eurozone leaders haven't got long to agree a credible rescue package, if they're to skirt default, banking meltdowns and eurozone fracture.
Some of this is pragmatic: high rents and tight mortgage-lending criteria make it expensive and difficult to fly the nest.
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There were big dangers for the company in pricing the iPad mini - make it too cheap and it could cannibalise the lucrative sales of its big brother, too expensive and it could flop against the competition from Google and Amazon.
While many brands also pay for custom content from agencies and freelancers, it can be expensive and many are looking to add to the mix, he notes.
James Acton, an analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said North Korea's plutonium stockpile is small and it would be difficult and expensive for the North to produce more.
In the febrile conditions of 2008, a great talking point among banks, investors and journalists was why Barclays appeared to be finding it harder and more expensive to borrow than many of its rivals.
This made it harder to meet ordinary Iraqis and meant it became more difficult and more expensive to move around.
"It's getting expensive and it is something that I need to address, " said Khan.
The kidneys do a better job than the dialysis machine, there is less of a risk of infection that way, and it is even less expensive and more convenient.
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If suddenly that advertising campaign doesn't make sense anymore and it's very expensive and you aim for a different audience, you're going to get different movies and maybe much better movies.
These days the typical corporate computing infrastructure is full of different boxes that make it awfully complicated and expensive for a company to expand its ability to manage information as it grows.
The way agency search is practiced now is too slow for a marketing world that runs at the speed of light, and it is too expensive for companies (and agencies) that need to prevent harmful waste.
He has set up a business, and buying him out of it might be expensive and controversial.
"It's way more complicated and expensive than it is on TV, " he said.
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Honda tells me that this is because none of the other cars in the Civic lineup offer it, and it's too expensive to include in a single model.
But as 'hard to reach' customers are also more expensive to reach, it gets harder and more expensive to hit targets.
Northrop Grumman ( NOC - news - people ) makes an unmanned spy plane called Global Hawk, which can map and image huge areas quickly, but it is expensive, and expensive to fly, and can stay aloft for only a day or so.
Based on its size alone, Samsung clearly isn't targeting the entire gamut of photographers with its first Android model, but it's still far more than a proof of concept -- it'll ship, but it will be expensive, and while it's not likely to fit in your pocket, this camera is but the first in a long line of compacts to come.
But when you begin to dig into it, for a country as large and spread out as the United States, it is a fiendishly expensive and wildly impractical project to undertake.
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But Surrey County Council said it was expensive and it must find significant savings.
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