In Their Own Words: Obamacare Is Massive New Entitlement That Worsens Our Fiscal Crisis
Posted November 10th, 2009 at 11.06am in Health Care.
The Wall Street Journal draws our attention to a burst of honesty from The New Yorker’s John Cassidy:
The future cost savings that the Administration and its congressional allies are promising to deliver are based on wishful thinking and sleight of hand. Over time, the reform, as proposed, would almost certainly add substantially to the budget deficit, thereby worsening the long-term fiscal crisis that the country faces.
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The U.S. government is making a costly and open-ended commitment to help provide health coverage for the vast majority of its citizens. I support this commitment, and I think the federal government’s spending priorities should be altered to make it happen. But let’s not pretend that it isn’t a big deal, or that it will be self-financing, or that it will work out exactly as planned. It won’t.Many Democratic insiders know all this, or most of it. What is really unfolding, I suspect, is the scenario that many conservatives feared. The Obama Administration, like the Bush Administration before it (and many other Administrations before that) is creating a new entitlement program, which, once established, will be virtually impossible to rescind. At some point in the future, the fiscal consequences of the reform will have to be dealt with in a more meaningful way, but by then the principle of (near) universal coverage will be well established. Even a twenty-first-century Ronald Reagan will have great difficult overturning it.
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November 10, 2009 Freedom of Speech, TX writes:
They KNOW exactly what they are doing. They KNOW this system cannot sustain itself. For many it is the goal and achievement of a life-time. History will not remember congressional proponents of this sick mess so kindly. These people will be linked forever to one of the root causes which destroyed America - the self-imposed annihalation of capitalism and thus America.
Many of the proponents will be out of office and will blame others. Some will have died through natural causes. Those remaining will be the same ones who don’t have enough sense to come out of the rain during a thunderstorm.
They will say, “We meant well. We must have received flawed data. It’s not our fault.”
This is why THEY must be stopped. And, it starts with our congress people having the dignity and responsibility to PUT AMERICA FIRST and not be bought off.
Politics as usual will destroy us. The VOTERS must act. The VOTERS must watch their representatives and hold them accountable.