May 17, 2009

Obama health care will bankrupt the nation

Larry Kudlow (pictured), CNBC’s financial guru, says Obama’s ‘public” health plan will bankrupt the nation. At the link below, Kudlow explains why:

The idea that Obama-care is a cost-cutter is a myth. It can’t happen nor will it happen. Instead, Kudlow says, costs are going to explode!

Think of it: Can anyone name a federal program that ever cut costs for anything?

Let’s not forget that the existing Medicare system is roughly $80 trillion in the hole.

And does anybody believe Obama’s new “public” health-insurance plan isn’t really a bridge to single-payer government-run health care?

And does anyone think this plan won’t produce a government gatekeeper that will allocate health services and control prices and therefore crowd-out the private-insurance doctor/hospital system?

Federal boards will decide what’s good for you and me and what’s not good for you and me. These boards will drive a wedge between doctors and patients.

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The poor are already on Medicare so Obama’s government health care is nothing but a massive, unfunded, middle-class entitlement program that is destined to be a huge problem for everyone concerned.

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