The Looming Health Care Debacle is Based on a Lie

The more you know about the democrats’ health plan the less you’re going to like it. First of all, the whole premise for so-called health care reform is an illusion. According to The Wall Street Journal the claims by President Obama and the White House are false.

The main White House argument for health-care reform goes something like this: If we spend now on a hugely expensive new insurance program for the middle class, we can save later by reducing overall U.S. health spending. This “tastes great, less filling” theory could stand some scrutiny, not least because it is being used to rush through the greatest social spending program in American history.

What if this particular theory turns out to be a political illusion? What if the speculative cost savings never report for duty, while the federal balance sheet is still swamped with new social obligations that will be impossible to repeal? The only possible outcome will be the nationalization of U.S. health markets, which will mean that almost all care will be rationed by politics.

They have crunched the numbers and the democrats’ numbers just don’t add up. The progress in health science over the past several decades is largely responsible for rapidly rising health care costs. Add to that the fact that most Americans don’t foot the bill for their own health care, so they don’t shop around for better prices or eschew costly procedures that may not be necessary. People also are less likely to take care of themselves if they aren’t the ones footing the bill to stay alive. The democrats’ plan will only exacerbate the latter two causes of higher costs. So they will have to rein in spending on medical progress. Which means we will see less and less new technology and rationing of care.

Keith Hennessey took the leaked Kennedy-Dodd health care plan and fixed the Adobe document so it is searchable. He has a list of  15 things you need to know about the plan. (via Hot Air) Legal aliens will be covered. The healthy will subsidize the unhealthy and the wealthy will subsidize, well, everyone. Rural areas will subsidize big cities. If an individual chooses not to have health insurance an unelected bureaucrat will decide how much that individual should be taxed to coerce said individual to purchase a health plan. The majority of Americans who already have health insurance will see a rise in premiums and a decrease in wages.

It’s awful, and it’s based on a lie.