The cost of Medicare is a good place to begin. At its start, in 1966, Medicare cost $3 billion. The House Ways and Means Committee estimated that Medicare would cost only about $ 12 billion by 1990 (a figure that included an allowance for inflation). This was a supposedly “conservative” estimate. But in 1990 Medicare actually cost $107 billion.
http://reason.com/archives/1993/01/01/the-medicare-monster
Given the fact that Congressional mendacity is more developed now than in 1966..we can definitely expect several orders of magnitude worse...
Precisely!
So with history as our guide, we choose to ignore it.
Remember in recent memory, when Republicans were accused of letting medicare or Social Security die on the vine? I can’t remember which one, but it really doesn’t matter it is two peas in a pod. The howls of pain and anguish from dems could be heard world wide.
The dems steal a half trillion dollars to help “pay” for Obama care and not a peep.
I call hypocrisy, for all the good it will do.