Friday, December 18, 2009

What Obamacare Gives Us

From the Washington Times and written by Wesley Pruden, in very brief form, what will happen with Obamacare.
With Obama in Copenhagen for a climate meeting thatwill have the success of the Olymipics going to Chicago he leaves behind a chaotic debate over his health care "reform," a debate awash in irony, confusion and incredulity. The next stop is farce. ObamaCare, which the president promised would be a simple, thrifty, economical cure-all for the health care system, runs to 2,074 pages that a roomful of Philadelphia lawyers (or worse, Washington lawyers) couldn't parse. But what everybody does understand is that it will cost $2.5 trillion - that's a "t," not a "b" - that vastly expands the government bureaucracy, raises taxes and premiums on private insurance and devastates Medicare, and probably only make things worse. Other than that, it's a start.

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