From The Foundry: Congress wants America to believe its new promises to control spending even as it reneges on its old promises and spends more than ever. The “new” promise within health care reform bills is to reduce Medicare spending by hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet simultaneously, Congress is reversing 1997 legislation that claimed it would reduce Medicare spending. The latest example of hypocrisy | Read More »
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill would create a health czar with the equivalent of super-powers–supported by a super-size bureaucracy. Under the 1,990-page $1.1-trillion+plus legislation, a presidential appointee will both control the new government-run insurance plan AND decide how private insurance companies must operate. Likewise, employer-run health plans would answer to this super-czar. In other words, this health czar will control both the government plan | Read More »
From the diaries by Erick. My full article is here at The Heritage Foundation’s blog. A major new report confirms the worst fears of many: Health care reform will raise the costs for most Americans—by about 18% on average. That is on top of existing and expected inflation of health coverage. This exposes President Obama’s fictitious claim that people will save money under his proposal. Only those | Read More »
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