The President is probably the most glib person that has ever been in the White House. His Health Care Plan is in trouble because none of the figures add up and just saying it will be cheaper isn't the same thing as being cheaper. Oh, by the way, did we mention that on page 16 of his health care bill there a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. Better hope it's a good bill if it goes through. What other bill that was jammed through like this was ever good?As I listened to him what I heard was someone whose solution to expense is to refuse to pay or hugely increase taxes. There wasn't any valid strategy mentioned only promises promises. The Medicare and Medicaid programs are out of control he said. Well whose fault is that? How much Medicare and Medicaid fraud is there? How does the government intend to reduce costs? There are only a couple of ways even conceivable. You can reduce the delivery of health care so there is less of it, or you can try price controls which any economist will tell you will lead to shortages, so again there will be less of it.
If you want to reduce health care costs you can do something real like get all the middle men out of the program. Restore control to the people who actually consume the services. You can also get the lawyers out of it. They are running up the cost with all kinds of lawsuits. Doctors can't guarantee outcomes, so lawyers see every poor or less than perfect outcome as an opportunity to sue. This drives up costs a lot and doesn't improve health care but leads to lots of unnecessary testing to allow doctors to defend themselves in the event of suit.
The bottom line is that the President is trying to force a bad program down our throats. If we let this happen we'll all be sorry for it later. Ask the American Indians what they think of their health care. Ask military families about their health care. Rationing, long lines, limited choices. The rosy picture the President paints is a false picture.
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