Five healthcare whoppers

By Contributor Archive

Filed Under Domestic Policy on Dec 16 

Via Michael Tanner at the Cato Institute, “Five Healthcare Reform Whoppers”

1. Healthcare reform will reduce your insurance premiums. Sure, that is if my premiums were $1300 a month.

2. Middle Class taxes won’t be raised. Right. Sadly it’s always the middle class that bears the brunt of any reform. Can’t go after the rich too much, then who would finance the campaigns and come to their swanky parties? Can’t go after the poor too much then who would they dupe into voting for them?

3. You can keep your current insurance. That is, of course, if your insurance meets all of the requirements, and you have passed GO, and collected $200 (which may or may not be taxed depending if it’s the 5th Tuesday in a week day ending with letter Y, and moon is in the seventh house). You get the picture, right?

4. It will only cost $848 Billion. And what’s that among friends, right? Here, take my $200 from passing GO earlier, no really, I insist.

5. It will reduce the budget deficit. Sure it will, because spending more than you have will always keep your check book in the black. It’s the new math people! Trust me, it totally works!

John Adams said, “Facts are stubborn things.” Too bad Obama, Pelosi and Reid are ignoring what those facts really are. Their reform is not about reform, but about power, and legacy. They truly are living in an alternative reality.

Comments

  • Clint

    My household budget is pretty tight this month, so Im telling my wife tonight that we are going to go out and spend our way out of it. A 52″ flat screen should do the trick. If not, we’ll head to a marina a buy us a boat. Surely by then, we would had spent enough to fix our money problems…. uhm… right?

  • kristen

    Well, this bill isn’t liberal enough for Dean.

    This health care thing makes my head spin.

    • http://www.yourblogmall.blogspot.com Sartho

      Our reasons for wanting the bill to be defeated maybe be (EXTREMELY) different, but there’s no better person to have rooting against the bill than a liberal. I’ll take what I can get at this point.

  • http://twitter.com/theatomicmom East of Eden

    I know, strange to be in agreement with Screamin’ Dean.

    It must be the end of days

  • http://www.yourblogmall.blogspot.com Sartho

    It’s strange to say it, but I think Howard Dean is my hero for today. Maybe tomorrow too.