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3:42 PM Friday, November 13, 2009

Recently, Nancy Pelosi dragged out a 1,990-page health care reform monstrosity that the Congressional Budget Office says will cost $1 trillion or more over the next 10 years.

What is actually in those 1,990 pages, and why does it take 1,990 pages to enact health care reform?

How many “surprises” have the Democrats hidden in those 1,990 pages? How many legislators have read or intend to read the entire document they will be voting on? Few to none, I would guess.

America’s health care system may not be perfect, but it is definitely not so bad that it has to be totally dismantled by the government like Dr. Frankenstein bringing a monster to life away from the prying eyes of ignorant villagers.

Now, Paul Krugman comes along and says that this House bill will actually reduce the federal deficit by $100 billion over the next decade.

The bottom line: the president wants a single-payer health care system.

What makes Krugman, Pelosi, and the president so confident that the government can effectively and efficiently run any program?

What government program has ever been run effectively and efficiently?

Those are the facts, and that is why this bill is a Frankenstein monster for this country, with our lives hanging in the balance.

Rocco Latino

Brookville

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DO do you even have a clue how federal budgets work? They are the most absurd things I have seen. Most will spend all of their money whether they need it or not so that they continue to get the same amount if not more. If you stay within budget or spend less then you get less the next year. There is no motivation within the federal government to improve anything!

Leslie
2:52 PM, 11/18/2009

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DO have you ever worked for the federal government? The FDA is a perfect example of how inefficient our federal government is. Political Correctness keeps them from doing their job. Protection for workers keeps them from having productive workers. It is extremely difficult to fire a federal employee, it is easier to create another position and hire someone to do the job that the original person is not doing. That is not efficiency. That is bloated government.

Leslie
2:50 PM, 11/18/2009

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TRS, "increased government involvement" in and of itself is inherently neither good or bad. Surely you wouldn't argue that increased government involvement in food safety is a bad thing. And considering what a catastrophe our current system is if fail to see how the government can make it any worse.

drunken orangetree
12:22 PM, 11/18/2009

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DO-I accept the premise as stated by the Urban Institute "At the most basic level, the estimates are not precise ‘body counts.’ Rather, view them as reasonable indicators...." The question is what does it accomplish? Again, this bill guarantees increased gvmt involvement, increased premiums, increased taxes, increased deficits, does not bend any the, does not control any costs, cuts Medicare by 400-500B, hurts business and job creation and ultimate leaves 20-30K uninsured. Nice bill, eh?

TRS
11:37 AM, 11/18/2009

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TRS, not that I expect to convince you, but the numbers weren't "thrown out." A study was done, with an explicit, falsifiable result. You have yet to refute it.

drunken_orangetree
7:35 AM, 11/18/2009

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