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. . . weight - at the hands of Democrats
It’s the Blue Dog Democrats in the House who wince at skyrocketing health-reform costs just weeks after having swallowed hemlock for 0bama on a ruinous cap-and-trade carbon tax.
He seized on Republican Sen. Jim DeMint’s comment that stopping 0bama on health care would break his presidency to protest, with perfect disingenuousness, that “this isn’t about me. This isn’t about politics.
“It’s all about him. Health care is his signature reform. He knows that if he produces nothing, he forfeits the mystique that both propelled him to the presidency and has sustained him through a difficult first six months. Which is why 0bama’s red lines are constantly shifting. Universal coverage? Maybe not. No middle-class tax hit? Well, perhaps, but only if they don’t “primarily” bear the burden.
Because it’s about him, 0bama is quite prepared to sign anything as long as it is titled “health care reform.”
But you can’t fake it in legislation. Once you commit your fantasies to words and numbers, the Congressional Budget Office comes along and declares that the emperor has no clothes.
But now we learn - surprise! - that universal coverage increases costs. The congressional Democrats’ health care plans, says the CBO, increase costs in the range of $1 trillion plus.
It’s not just that it is crazily anti-stimulatory to saddle a deeply depressed economy with an income tax surcharge that falls squarely on small business and the investor class. It’s that health care reform ends up diverting for its own purposes a source of revenue that might otherwise be used to close the yawning structural budget deficit that is such a threat to the economy and to the dollar.
These blindingly obvious contradictions are why the Democratic health plans are collapsing under their own
0bamacare, defensive medicine, malpractice insurance, patients pay the cost of malpractice insurance/law, tort reform, trial lawyers
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