While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in...
Social Security
Director’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Long-Term Budget Outlook
Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run. Although great uncertainty surrounds long-term fiscal projections, rising costs for health care and the aging of the population will cause federal spending to increase rapidly under any...
CBO: The Long-Term Budget Outlook
Measured relative to GDP, almost all of the projected growth in federal spending other than interest payments on the debt stems from the three largest entitlement programs—Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. via Director’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Long-Term Budget Outlook.
Of NICE and Men – WSJ.com on Obamacare (or lack thereof)
The NICE precedent also undercuts the Obama Administration’s argument that vast health savings can be gleaned simply by automating health records or squeezing out “waste.” Britain has tried all of that but ultimately has concluded that it can only rein in costs by limiting care. The logic of a health-care system dominated by government...
White House Stands by Obama’s Claim That Single-Payer Health Care Works In Other Countries–It’s Just Not Sure Which Countries Obama Meant
“I don’t know exactly the countries. I think if you talk to the people in the countries that have that system, they think their health care is pretty good,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told CNSNews.com Wednesday during the daily press briefing. Asked again if he knew specifically which countries, Gibbs replied: “I...
The ‘Paygo’ Coverup – WSJ.com
But Mr. Obama must think the press and public are dumb enough to buy it, because there he was Tuesday re-selling the same “paygo” promises that Democrats roll out every election. Paygo is “very simple,” the President claimed. “Congress can only spend a dollar if it saves a dollar elsewhere.” That’s what Democrats also...
How to Stop Socialized Health Care – WSJ.com
In other words, the public option is just phony. It’s a bait-and-switch tactic meant to reassure people that the president’s goals are less radical than they are. Mr. Obama’s real aim, as some candid Democrats admit, is a single-payer, government-run health-care system. via How to Stop Socialized Health Care – WSJ.com.
American Thinker: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
American Thinker: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis. Cloward-Piven Strategy to force national income by redistribution of wealth. Obama is an aherent and student of it.
George F. Will – The Toxic Assets We Elected
George F. Will – The Toxic Assets We Elected. “The Obama administration yesterday invited private-sector investors to become business partners with the capricious and increasingly anti-constitutional government.”
