Rxess
March 29, 2010
So who, really opposes healthcare for children and ensuring that families with pre-existing conditions are not prevented from care? Not many and certainly not me. However, the fact that these examples were used to ram through the largest government takeover of a section of the economy with no true accounting of the cost — KILLS me.
Shame on Republicans who were in control years ago and didn’t deal with some of the real issues — spiraling costs, the need for tort reform, testing of new ideas like buying across state lines – that could have helped address some very real deficits in the system. And now we pay for it. We’ve been bludgeoned with the hammer of government takeover, the consequences of which we probably can’t even comprehend yet, not only fiscally but in the way our healthcare will change and ultimately, be rationed.
At the end of the day… how can we afford this? Leave it to Robert Samuelson to paint the stark budget reality picture. Bottom line: we can’t. Unless, of course you see Charles Krauthammer’s prediction — that the only way the President will really be able to ensure a windfall of cash into federal coffers — the Value Added Tax.
Is there anyone who still believes the “we won’t raise your taxes one dime” claim?
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