Health Care Insanity: More Of The Same Failures
Before we allow President Obama and Congress to slam the health care industry and The People with yet another Tsunami of subsidies, taxes, regulations, restrictions, price controls, and mandates we should review the performance of past government health care schemes.
As America watches, the House and Senate continue to engage in urgent, feaverish, political negotiation to gather enough votes to pass ObamaCare within the next two weeks. So far, it has evolved into thousands of pages of legislation, that no Congressman or Senator will read or comprehend before voting.
One of Obama’s selling points is his assertion that due to rising costs existing government programs are “unsustainable.” So, how does he propose to reduce those costs? He will bring private health insurance under government control, and move millions of Americans who are now covered by private insurance into a new government program.
Does this make any sense?
In 1965 President Johnson won support for his Medicare scheme with a solemn promise that the cost would not exceed $500 Million. No, that’s not a mistake. That’s Million, with an M.
Today, President Obama confidently assures us that if only we will turn over the entire health care system to government, costs will go down and quality will improve. He makes these promises even though the final version of the legislation doesn’t yet exist, even though government’s record is one of failure.
