Big Government Medicine

Tribune Media Servics ^ | July 23, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

[skimbell]

Big new taxes. Big new spending. Big new government. This seems to be the proposed cure for the Wall Street-inspired recession.

The government now runs major banks and companies, and plans to take control of the American health-care system. And it aims to tax how energy in the United States is used to monitor carbon use.

But wait! Recent financial rescue and stimulus plans, together with other new government initiatives, have already led to the largest dollar deficits in American history, projected to be near $2 trillion at fiscal year's end.

Before some of these new proposals are even enacted, public spending will eat up 45 percent of our gross domestic product...

[Woodstock]

Who is going to get this proposed “savings?” Additional taxes and more folks on the federal and state healthcare rosters does not add up to any savings to anyone, except perhaps managed care health plans?

[buck61]

skimbell

I am searching for some-one who is well versed in the new health care diabolical being pushed on Americans.

My question is... I’m in gov. medical care through the VA as a disable vet. Excepting this medical care I have no legal right to sue the VA if a mistake is made “medical” on my person. Now, does the new proposed “O” medical care have any clauses such as this?/... seeing it will be gov. medical care. I haven’t read any comments pertaining to this sub. in all my following of the subject.

Any help will be very much appreciated

[PGalt]

Finally, even after the financial meltdown, history is still running against collectivism. - VDH

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. - Frédéric Bastiat 1801-1850

Very good article. Thanks for posting. Thanks for identifying some of the plunderers, Victor Davis Hanson.

[RicocheT]

If conservatives or Republicans ever get back in power in D.C., we have to make every cable or satellite package carry Fox News Channel and with a channel # right next to the other MSM numbers.