Sickening "Health"
Sickening “Health”
*cough*
Obama wants to enact the plan, with a 10-year price tag he estimates at $634 billion, without boosting a budget deficit projected to reach $1.8 trillion this year.
Which means, with hiz record, $1,268 billion [$1.27 trillion, if I’m keeping up]
...The most vexing question Congress faces in the battle over President Barack Obama’s health-care proposal is how to pay for it.
“Vexing”? srsly?
I’d settle for “Im-freakin’-possible,” m’self.
“One of the easiest things for the anti-reform side to say is, ‘the measure breaks the bank, that measure is going to cost a fortune,’” said Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat.
And one of the hardest things for us “anti-reformers” is to not place our fingers gently around your throats and squeeze and squeeze and squeeze until the stupid pops out.
These savings can be achieved by standardizing quality care,
to the standards of Cuba,
incentivizing efficiency,
like the DMV,
investing in proven ways not only to treat illness but to prevent them.
And having some gubbmint nanny-crat leap out of the shadows to grab that burger, soda, ceegar, Cosmo out of your hand and chase your hinder down the street, calling it exercise.
Oh, yes: we really really want to entrust our health care to the gubbmint,
Medicare’s trustees warned today that the program’s biggest fund would run out of money in just eight years ... The Social Security trust fund, however, is not expected to run out of money until 2037...
...because the gubbmint does such a good job.
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