Posted on 08/02/2009 3:36:29 AM PDT by Scanian
Last week the president's health care reform ran off into the ditch. This week, in a flurry of flashing lights, the Beltway wrecker will doubtless try to haul it back up on the legislative highway. The mainstream media will take a look and declare the it as good as new. But we all know that after you have run a car up on the sidewalk or into a ditch is is never quite the same again.
It is instructive to watch President Obama talk to the American people using center-right language about choice and incentives -- "let me be clear about this.'" But he is talking not about choices and markets but about a comprehensive and mandatory administrative program of staggering complexity. It will not deliver choice and efficiency; it will not deliver more health care for more people with less money. It will further rigidify and constrain health care options and, where it subsidizes use of health care resources, run up the costs.
Some people have started to run the Wizard of Oz clip of "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" as though all this is mere family entertainment. So it is that President Obama tells Americans that they can keep their current health plan. But the insiders know that few insurance companies would stay in business if they were competing against a subsidized government "public option."
President Obama talks about stopping unnecessary procedures. But the insiders read Peter Singer in The New York Times Magazine, and he tells them that rationing is the only way to go.
And the whole exercise is a classic demonstration of government trying to get out of a jam caused by administrative compulsion and subsidy -- with, what else? more compulsion and subsidy.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The government knows medicare is bankrupt. Solution. Bankrupt the insurance companies so the Communists can save face and blame it on the private sector.
Unnecessary procedures is Obama’s specialty.
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