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October 30, 2009
NRO: The Inevitable Debacle (of Pelosi-care)
Topics: Political News and commentariesThe editors at NRO weigh-in on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health care bill and their take is that its more of the same, and like every other Democratic bill before Congress, this "comprehensive reform" has two major features: It transforms insurance into a product that few rational people would buy, and it forces them to buy it:
Like the Baucus bill, Pelosi's alternative imposes massive costs on states and individuals so that its sponsors can describe it as "cheap" for the federal government. Like the Baucus bill, it contains disguised tax increases on middle-class Americans: In the case of Pelosi's bill, the chief subterfuge is to impose taxes on "the rich" with no adjustment for inflation: Over time more and more Americans will pay the higher taxes.Read it all ...Pelosi's bill is being called "less liberal" than some of its predecessors because the government-run insurance program it creates would not be allowed to force bargain-basement rates on doctors. To dwell on this question -- unless you are a lobbyist for one of the affected interests -- is to miss the forest fire for the trees. The details of the "public option" are not what make this bill a mistake; and it would remain a mistake even if it lacked a public option altogether.
In other words, as Bill Jacobson notes, instead of getting something for nothing as promised by the Pelosicrats, we will get nothing for something - "like every other Democratic bill before Congress."
Posted by Richard at October 30, 2009 7:52 AM
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