New Time Magazine cover cracks Obama's healthcare plan in half

Time Magazine’s new cover story on Barack Obama’s proposed healthcare programme has simply and effectively shown how the bill’s pros and cons have been debated endlessly by the American public. It shows a pill broken in half, with one half saying “Obama”, and the other saying “Care”.

The cover story , by Nancy Gibbs, looks at how President Barack Obama needs to fix what has been a disastrous rollout of the federal health law. As the story says:

“The sign that the Obama presidency had reached a turning point came not when his poll numbers sank or his allies shuddered or the commentariat went hunting for the right degree of debacle to compare to the rollout of Obamacare…It happened when he started apologising. In triplicate. For not knowing what was going on in his own Administration. For failing to prevent his signature achievement from detonating in prime time. For not telling the whole truth when he promised people that Obamacare would not touch them without permission: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”

Read the Time report here.