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March 19, 2010
Obamacare: Are Americans really so stupid?
Topics: Political News and commentariesSomething that most Americans have probably not yet strongly considered is what Phillip Klein points out in his piece titled Obamacare will fail - that Obamacare is a welfare program in which one segment of the country receives benefits, while others have their coverage disrupted, and are punished with higher taxes, longer wait times, and poorer quality of care:
Democrats are deluding themselves into believing that if they pass a bill, people would learn to love it. Yet in time, Americans would learn that the legislation doesn't fix the problems it was meant to solve, and makes other problems far worse.Just think about this for a moment. As Klein goes on to point out in his piece, while it's true that Social Security and Medicare have remained popular even as the programs threaten to bankrupt the country, they are different from Obamacare because at least conceptually, everybody pays into them and everybody receives benefits. On the other hand, what Obamacare does is add an additional very expensive entitlement program that is wholly funded by the taxpayers at the same time it uses the same dollars twice that it claims to be "Medicare savings," along with other accounting trickery, to get the CBO numbers to match the phony position that Obamacare reduces the deficit.
Deroy Murdock puts this another way - ObamaCare rests upon such double counting. It repeatedly shanghais taxpayer funds for Obama's plan while simultaneously shielding that same money for Medicare, Social Security, and other programs. It's nothing less than Madoff-style accounting.
And owing to such "fraudulent accounting and budget gimmicks that Democrats spent months calibrating," Americans are to be forced to experience higher taxes, longer wait times, and poorer quality of care - all so the Democrats can take a giant step toward socialized medicine, gain greater control over the lives of every American.
Are Americans actually stupid enough to fall for this?
Related:
Paul Ryan v. the President (The Republican dissects ObamaCare's real costs. Democrats stay mute.)
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Posted by Richard at March 19, 2010 7:30 AM
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