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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (14762)3/19/2010 7:08:31 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Love it or hate it, one thing that is indisputable about the Democrats’ big health care legislation is that the cost figures are going to come out right where President Obama said he wanted them.

Which should surprise no one. If the program was estimated to cost over a trillion, they would fiddle with it until the estimate comes out at less than a trillion. It was obvious from near the beginning that the bill would have an estimate of about this level. What will be a surprise (assuming it passes) is if it winds up actually only costing this much.

Building the health care legislation was not some wild shopping spree in Macy’s

Even in the unlikely event that the cost estimate is accurate $940bil over the first 10 years, and then continued growing expenses indefinitely, is a wild shopping spree.

Rather, it was more like a trip to the local fruit stand with a set amount of money in hand

No money is in hand, some of it will be borrowed, the rest will be taken from the people in and around the fruit stand.
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