Jul 13 2009
Obama’s Fantasyland vs. Healthcare Realities
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Yuval Levine comments on Obama’s fantasyland remarks made during the announcing of his new Surgeon General nominee this morning:
President Obama remarks:
Over the last several weeks, key committees in the House and the Senate have made important and unprecedented progress on a plan that will lower costs, provide better care for patients, and curb the worst practices of the insurance companies. It’s a plan that will not add to our deficit over the next decade. Let me repeat that: It is a plan that will not add to our deficit over the next decade — and eventually will help lower our deficit by slowing the skyrocketing cost of Medicare and Medicaid.
Among Levine’s commensts, there are these nuggets:
… any observer of the passing scene must say: What in the world is the president talking about? Where is the committee in the House or Senate that has offered up a bill that will not add to the deficit? What bill would that be? Even in their own terms, with all the gimmicks they’ve been able to come up with, the plans the Democrats have proposed so far are all enormously expensive, and no one has yet proposed a way to pay for them. So what is the “it” the president has in mind exactly?… So the model we should follow in solving our health care cost crisis is the program at the heart of the crisis, which threatens to “crush our government”? Will we correct past errors by repeating them? Remind me again which side in this debate is arguing for more of the same.
Read it all.
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