Blaming Healthcare Costs For The Deficit Is Just Plain Sick!
Listening to talk radio this morning, it suddenly dawned on me: the “new” approach to government controlled health care is to blame the current and future economic troubles we are in on the spiraling costs of health care! Wow!! If Hillary Clinton had only thought about that angle back in 1994, we could be so much better off today. Here is a link to Drudgereport where Mr. Obama lets the cat out of the bag and then attempts (off prompter no doubt) to veer into the ‘real reason’ after making the statement that “We are out of money.”
http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2009/05/23/20090523_143503_flashocs.htm
When asked why we are so in debt, this is Mr. Obama’s answer: “This is a consequence of the crisis that we've seen and in fact our failure to make some good decisions on health care over the last several decades."
He then goes a step further: “So we have a short-term problem and we also have a long-term problem. The short-term problem is dwarfed by the long-term problem. And the long-term problem is Medicaid and Medicare. If we don’t reduce long-term health care inflation substantially, we can’t get control of the deficit. So, one option is just to do nothing. We say, well, it's too expensive for us to make some short-term investments in health care. We can't afford it. We've got this big deficit. Let's just keep the health care system that we've got now. Along that trajectory, we will see health care cost as an overall share of our federal spending grow and grow and grow and grow until essentially it consumes everything...
He is laying the inability to bring the deficit under control at the feet of health care costs! Is there any doubt as to the goal of this administration? Not only are they taking over running (ruining?) the auto industry, the banking industry and all forms of energy, they want to control the health care system as well. For those who continue to deny that we are headed for socialism, give the previous two sentences and the added link a good, hard think…..
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5510RC20090602
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