What Obama misses, or ignores is that the welfare socialist state model is failing all over Europe. Germany made state sponsored healthcare a means tested affair -- make over a certain amount and you're dropped and told to get private insurance. Which, all medical personnel I knew already had it.
Retirement ages are being raised and benefits are being cut.
The UK is cutting department budgets 25 to 40 percent. Semi-government activities called quangos are being eliminated (180), privatized (4) or combined (69). The Public Health Service, already an embarrassment, will have wait times lengthened and more facilities closed.
The EU is finally getting the message, belatedly. Someone flip Obama over and tell him, he's done.