What everyone should know -- Reality always wins
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 06:38AM Regardless of the Democrats' magical math regarding the cost of healthcare reform, there's no doubt it will cost far more than they are estimating. No sane person can look at the history of social programs and believe the numbers coming out of congress. Reality always wins, and the result of healthcare reform will be a costly system which has many unintended consequences -- this is the history of government social plans.
Obama has stated he will not sign any bill that adds a dime to the deficit, but this is a lie. Obama knows that the deficit will rise from any bill proposed, and he will sign a bill anyway. Everyone who knows anything about government's history with social programs knows that CBO is being gamed, and we are being gamed. Everyone who knows about government social programs can predict that whatever is passed will be added to until government is running healthcare. Government didn't come this far with healthcare reform to make a few tweaks. Government has come this far to take over and run healthcare.
Everyone who knows the history of government social programs knows that taxes will go up for those making less than $250,000. Many people know all this, and that Obama pledged to not raise taxes on those making less than $250,000, and that the pledge means nothing. Everyone knows that politicians lie, yet they plan our economy. Everyone knows the plans are based on lies and wishful thinking.
Everyone knows, or will know, that reality wins.
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Reader Comments (2)
Mike, are you ready for health care to be 30% or 40% of GDP?
Up here in a state like Wisconsin, the healthcare industry (thanks exclusively to government subsidy, whether through grants or regulation) is exploding at the expense of every other industry.
You can barely begin to imagine the extent to which job creation and new jobs are solely within the healthcare industry. Every facet imaginable of the industsry. And that's just about all there is for jobs.
Hospitals, insurance companies, product wholesalers, healthcare HR software, insurance, consultants galore. This will all only accelerate once the last half of the industry is nationalized.
Welcome to the return of fiefdoms, where industry consists of people who work for the government and people the government control.
No, Jay, I'm not ready, but they don't care -- it's a'coming no matter what.