Chart: Total 10-Year Cost of Reid Bill is $2.5 Trillion
Senate Republicans have just released an outstanding chart highlighting the accounting games that Democrats are playing with the costs of their proposed health-care overhaul. The Democrats assert that their Senate bill would cost $848 billion over ten years. But Congressional Budget Office projections show that only 1 percent of those costs would kick [...]
The Shape of Things to Come?
In the absence of a discernable trajectory of purpose, a person’s actions may seem random, unpredictable, and inexplicable. Why did he do that? Why not this? What’s he going to do next? We haven’t a clue.
But sometimes, in a great flash, you finally see the pattern; and all previous actions make [...]
Michael Gerson: Why Obamacare Is Failing
Michael Gerson’s interesting analysis of why Obamacare is failing offers an equally interesting take-home message:
Obama’s choices on health care during the next few weeks will determine much about the nature and trajectory of his presidency. Eventually it comes down to a question: Will Obama make necessary strategic adjustments before his political humiliation — or after [...]
CBO Director Says Proposed Changes Would Increase Health Care Spending
Bad news for the Democrats’ health-care plan:
Instead of saving the federal government from fiscal catastrophe, the health reform measures being drafted by congressional Democrats would increase rather than reduce public spending on health care, potentially worsening an already bleak budget outlook, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said this morning.
Under questioning by members [...]
George F. Will: Unsilent Barack
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The trajectory of his presidency may have been determined by what he did in his first 100 days.
