1.6 Trillion Reasons …
...why the health care reforms currently being shilled are doomed to failure.
In the 48 hours of June 15-16, President Obama lost the health-care debate. First, a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Sen. Edward Kennedy reported that his health committee’s reform bill would add $1 trillion in debt over the next decade. Then the CBO reported that the other Senate bill, being written by the Finance Committee, would add $1.6 trillion. The central contradiction of Obamacare was fatally exposed: From his first address to Congress, Obama insisted on the dire need for restructuring the health-care system because out-of-control costs were bankrupting the Treasury and wrecking the U.S. economy—yet the Democrats’ plans would make the problem worse.
Then, linking to the above op-ed, is this.
In more than seven months of ObamaCare salesmanship, we’ve seen a boatload of mischaracterizations and outright lies. The public option won’t chase out private insurers. Wrong. We can bend the cost curve without affecting care. Wrong. We can pay for this without massive tax hikes. Wrong again.
One thing that concerns me is that the Obama Administration, apparently, has failed to think this through in even a rudimentary fashion. It’s as if their approach is, throw enough shit against the wall and some of it’s bound to stick. I think that most people agree that there needs to be some sort of health care reform. Even those who are flooding to the Town Halls to voice their disdain for what’s being proposed now. But Obama doesn’t seem to care as much about doing it right. Instead, it appears as though he just wants to do something, anything so that he can claim to have done something. Most likely for the sake of future political capital.
It’s stupid and it’s an egregious waste of an opportunity.
Also, I’ve noticed how the left has tried to usurp the term “health care reform”. If you’re against this socialized, horrific monstrosity being put forth, you are against “reform”.
Of coarse we can’t forget the ever entertaining Nancy Pelosi who last week called those who disrupt town hall meetings un-American yet seemed to have a different tone when it suited her. Nancy Pelosi is the worst of the worst.