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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (14742)	3/18/2010 4:27:33 PM
From: Bill	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

There was a lot of conservative hand wringing about Bush's drug plan. At least on SI there was.

To: Road Walker who wrote (14742)	3/18/2010 4:52:21 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I don't remember any of this hand wringing with the Bush prescription drug plan. Because it wasn't, at least not in any way that I could see then, or even see now with the benefit of hindsight, set up in such a way as to seriously manipulate the CBO scoring process. (None the less I was an opponent of it, and I'm still not a fan.) TOTALLY on the credit card. But very likely to add less to the credit card balance than this particular effort, probably much less. Also its in addition to the previous effort. Assuming the earlier effort was profligate and generally a bad idea, it gives us more reason to avoid additional profligacy, not less. The more money Bush wasted, and the more debt happened when Bush was president, the harder we have to fight to avoid additional waste and debt. Additional debt doesn't subtract from the old debt it adds to it.