By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON -- In the 48 hours of June 15-16, President Obama lost the health care debate. First, a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Sen. Edward Kennedy reported that his health committee's reform bill would add $1 trillion in debt over the next decade. Then the CBO reported that the other Senate bill, being written by the Finance Committee, would add $1.6 trillion. The central contradiction of Obamacare was fatally exposed: From his first address to Congress, Obama insisted on the dire need for restructuring the health care system because out-of-control costs were bankrupting the Treasury and wrecking the U.S. economy -- yet the Democrats' plans would make the problem worse.
Accordingly, Democrats have trotted out various tax proposals to close the gap. Obama's idea of limits on charitable and mortgage-interest deductions went nowhere. As did the House's income tax surcharge on millionaires. And Obama dare not tax employer-provided health insurance because of his campaign pledge of no middle-class tax hikes.
Desperation time. What do you do? Sprinkle fairy dust on every health care plan, and present your deus ex machina: prevention.
Free mammograms and diabetes tests and checkups for all, promise Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, writing in USA Today. Prevention, they assure us, will not just make us healthier, it also "will save money."
Obama followed suit in his Tuesday New Hampshire town hall, touting prevention as amazingly dual-purpose: "It saves lives. It also saves money."
Reform proponents repeat this like a mantra. Because it seems so intuitive, it has become conventional wisdom. But like most conventional wisdom, it is wrong. Overall, preventive care increases medical costs.
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6 comments:
The people in this country are slowely realizing what a liar Obama is.
In fact, the people have been awakened to how the whole congress and especially the Democrats, lie, and manipulate the sheeple to forward their own selfish agenda.
GOVERNMENT GET OUT OF MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MY DOCTOR!!!
GET OUT!!!!
Joe, how about posting a truely informative piece, or does this go against the principles of your blog:
anonymous 10:54, how about you put it on your own Blog.
Or is it you don't get the hits Salisbury News does and you rely on us to sell your information instead.
So let me get this straight: no mammograms unless you can pay for them. If you can't afford mammograms, then by the time breast cancer is detected, it's probably too late and you die. And you guys are hollering, "Euthanasia"?
Ok Joe...Imma have to disagree with you again. I truely think that preventatlve (sp?) medicine could go a long way towards the diagnosis of long term adn costly issues that could probably be stopped before they becasme issues. No, that does not mean a doctor's visit for everyone. But how about expanded nurses' visits. Make an incentive available to increase the number of nurses we have. Require that the people who graduate as nurses return a year of their service to the government for every year of college. Put those nurses into a government building and let them teach people about healthy living. Let them look for signs of diabetes, heart disease, etc. If they see some early signs, then a doctor may need to be called in to see them. Would this be a perfect plan. No way...it is not even a new one. But it will hopefyully make more people informed adn educated on living healthy adn looking out for their own bodies.
I wish something like this would have been available about 5 years ago.
dogg
DOGG, Please go look at the video on my new Post at 12:26 PM. Then come back here and tell everyone how great the plan is. You see, without reading the proposal, everyone else is talking out of their, well, you know what. Seriously, go take a look.
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