Posted on 09/10/2009 11:47:29 AM PDT by tobyhill
Health care policy researchers are contradicting President Obama's claim that a government-run health insurance program would be self-sufficient and could rely on premiums, saying it's not possible to insure up to 30 million people with better coverage and reduce costs at the same time.
"The numbers don't hold up," Grace Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, a think tank devoted to health policy, said Thursday.
In his case to the joint session of Congress Wednesday night, Obama cited the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to contend that less than 5 percent of Americans would sign up for a so-called public option.
The July report by the CBO projected that 6 million people would enroll in a government-run program, considerably fewer than the 100 million estimated by The Lewin Group, a health care policy research group, or the 47 million predicted by the left-leaning Urban Institute.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
and the hits keep coming...
Read the entire article...then get to the last line.
“You’re not keeping private insurers honest. At the end of the day, that is the elephant giving birth to the flea.”
That pretty much says it all. We waste all this time and effort....to get to the next level (if it passes) to meet the Supreme Court....to meeting governor by governor who refuse to play...thus inviting more court action....and we get down to a “flea” operation in the end?
This is sad...
Pelosi: Health Care Reform Has 'Cap On Costs, No Cap On Benefits' She says it twice, thinking we are hard of hearing or something...
>>>> saying it’s not possible to insure up to 30 million people with better coverage and reduce costs at the same time. <<<<<<
Aside from the odd fact that it’s been “46 million uninsured” for a few years until the sudden “30 million” until last night...
How many of that new “30 million uninsured” are Mexican and Mesoamerican illegal alien peasants?
Or are they somehow slipped into the “now insured” category when Zer0, McQueeg, and Pansy Graham obtain for “comprehensive immigration reform” in 2010 (which Zer0 promised 5 weeks ago in Mexico was already being written and would be voted on in 2010).
Perhaps Jib Jab could do a video like the Dancing Itos, except it would be the Lying Obamas...(dancing while lying).
Each a differenyt lie, with the finish having all the different Lying Obamas crowding out of the screen.
I am [still] amazed that that 48% of the American public buys into this BS....are they that stupid and naive? Don’t they see this guy is a radical and it’s a power grab? Don’t they see the poor results from other countries that have government run everything? what are people thinking....I can not believe the STUPIDITY!!!!!! This is not the America I expected to see in my lifetime.
I still think it’s really all about medicare, medicaid and social security. They’re all dem programs and they’re all ready to go bankrupt any minute now.
You get your hands on every American citizens health care and you can save face and your bankrupt programs by simply denying life saving care to enough people.
You get to keep all the funds they’ve paid into medicare, medicaid and social security AND you get to collect tax’s from their estates. It’s a windfall if you can just get these pesky people to shut their mouths and let you force your government run health care down their throats.
Or, in other words...
"YOU LIE!"
One aspect of the “public option” that’s gone undiscussed is the role of federal antitrust regulators. The FTC already claims the right to nullify private insurer-provider contracts if the mid-level staff lawyers at FTC decide the physicians are being paid too much. Imagine what they’ll do once they’re “protecting” the public option from physicians’ “anticompetitive” behavior. Indeed, the FTC recently fired a warning shot at Congress, telling the people’s elected representatives not to interfere with the FTC’s God-given right to control physician prices.
And why did the FTC even fire a warning shot? Because there is a bill, introduced by Ron Paul, that would strip the FTC of its powers to nullify physician contracts.
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