I'm searching for the right word to describe this creation of policies and ideas for Barack Obama.

If you read his words in this clip, he says cut waste, the first example being the wasteful spending such as federal crop subsidies for millionaire farmers.

That's sort of hard to complain about.

Obama's next examples are: the elimination of excessive subsidies ("corporate welfare,") to HMO - Health Maintenance Organization, i.e. medical insurance companies.

#2) and eliminating bad practices, i.e. "not using the governments purchasing power to drive down the cost of prescription drugs"

Note: The government fell victim to HMO lobbying that refused to allow the government to negotiate for better prices on prescription drugs: No discounts for buying in bulk, etc. -- a clear financial scam.

So these are 2 more good things to cut corruption and waste.

YET > this article had a sense of doom and gloom about raising medical insurance rates!?

Raising rates was not in th