December 15, 2009

Obamacare’s dishonest cost “savings.”

Obamacare is more “ready, fire, aim” from King Canute and the Kapitolian Knights.

Notwithstanding, health care “reform,” alas, looks to be sliding inexorably off the back of the truck onto our front lawns with the speed of a midnight shoppers’ stampede on Black Friday.

It never ceases to amaze me that people who would cry rivers over a whiff of cigarette smoke emanating from the other side of a football stadium, will not bat at eye over an addition to the United States statute books -- and resulting real-world confusion and loss of liberty -- that’s the legislative equivalent of building an oil refinery, a feedlot, and a nuclear waste depository on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Such are the views on pollution of the socialism-now-and-forever Democrats. Namely, organic Cheese Doodles, yes! and reckless political and economic Xanadudian seppuku, hell yeah!

On just the issue of supposed cost control possible from mobilization of 114 -- I kid you not -- new government agencies (and political favors doled out to wisely-chosen cost-conscious political constituencies), The Wall Street Journal recently did a great job of sorting the diamonds of sense from the week-old fish heads of flapdoodle.

Here:

"The 'Cost Control' Bill of Goods. How Peter Orszag and the White House sold a health-care illusion." Wall Street Journal, 12/14/09.

Oh, yes. There’s more.

Read about our contemptible Democrats and the supposed “savings” from a provision in the health bills called the “Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act” (the Class Act), a proposed new federal long-term care entitlement.

You can rest assured. Yes, you can. The near-term highly-problematical “savings” get spent eo instante by the politicians and then transform (difficult as it may be to believe) into massive liabilities later.

Detailed aqui:

"Congress's Long-Term Care Bomb. Another new entitlement that will make future costs explode." By Scott Harrington, Wall Street Journal, 12/13/09.

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