Posted by
Always To The Right on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:01:59 PM
From an article about Health Care reform. How a Democrat candidate for president
[Barack Obama] plans to solve the "health care" crisis. See it here.
Giving insurance to everyone won't cut
the nation's health tab, either. Quite the contrary. Studies repeatedly
show that people with insurance use more health care services than
those without. That increased demand will push up costs for everyone.
Other problems with Obama's plan quickly emerge. His new
Medicare-like plan for people without employer-provided insurance, the
self-employed and small businesses would quickly explode in size as
businesses take the opportunity to dump their workers and their
health-care cost problems into the government plan.
At $50 billion to $65 billion a year, Obama's forecast for the
taxpayer cost of this reform plan is laughably low. Just providing
seniors on Medicare a prescription drug benefit costs more than $30
billion a year.