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Title: Democrats Want To Limit Your Health Care Spending
Post by: howardroark on August 23, 2012, 12:24:14 AM

First they tax sick people (http://atr.org/full-list-ACA-tax-hikes-a6996), and now this (http://reason.com/archives/2012/08/22/big-government-ratchet-turns-another-cli). They no longer need a single payer medical insurance system as an excuse to ration your health care.

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As critics warned, the Affordable Care Act will not “bend the cost curve downward” as promised. To the contrary, a June report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid predicts that national health spending through 2021 will continue to grow at a considerably faster clip than Gross Domestic Product.

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According to The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus, “23 responsible Democrats—some of the left’s leading thinkers in the health-care field—have just come up with a set of answers.” And like a boozer who tries to drink himself sober, their answer is...wait for it...more government.

The group, Marcus writes, believes that “no matter how hard federal officials work to slow the rising trajectory of federal spending, their efforts will fail if overall health-care costs continue to rise. ‘Health costs throughout the system drive federal health spending,’ they write...'The only sustainable solution is to control overall growth in health costs.'"

Translation: Set a nationwide cap on all health spending, including private spending. This is the brilliant fix being offered by "responsible...leading thinkers” such as the Center for American Progress’ John Podesta and former Obama health-care adviser Ezekiel Emanuel. (Just imagine what the irresponsible, second-rate thinkers would come up with.)

Read more: http://reason.com/archives/2012/08/22/big-government-ratchet-turns-another-cli (http://reason.com/archives/2012/08/22/big-government-ratchet-turns-another-cli)

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