Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Panicking over a panic!
Hub Blog gets the distinct impression that it’s really liberals who are the ones starting to panic over a panic. ... Joel says it’s ‘totally rubbish’ to say draft health-care plans won’t reduce actual health-care costs. Really? That’s not what CBO chief Douglas Elmendorf says here and here. Joel points to Ezra Klein to back up his point. But, again, Elmendorf specifically says he’s talking about both federal outlays and actual inflation. … Mickey, among many others, has been making mincemeat of the whole bogus ‘cost savings’ argument. … IBD rips into the alleged creation of a new insurance “market.” Repeat: It’s not about cost savings, folks. It’s about a decades-long dream by liberals for a universal and government-run health system.
Update -- Now I'm a paranoid failure at mind reading. See update. … I should have inserted "in general" after "liberal" above (like I did the other day) because in debates like this, apparently, every comma and word is open to attack. Better that, I guess, than debating the CBO’s estimates of increasing budget deficits and health-care costs.
Hub Blog gets the distinct impression that it’s really liberals who are the ones starting to panic over a panic. ... Joel says it’s ‘totally rubbish’ to say draft health-care plans won’t reduce actual health-care costs. Really? That’s not what CBO chief Douglas Elmendorf says here and here. Joel points to Ezra Klein to back up his point. But, again, Elmendorf specifically says he’s talking about both federal outlays and actual inflation. … Mickey, among many others, has been making mincemeat of the whole bogus ‘cost savings’ argument. … IBD rips into the alleged creation of a new insurance “market.” Repeat: It’s not about cost savings, folks. It’s about a decades-long dream by liberals for a universal and government-run health system.
Update -- Now I'm a paranoid failure at mind reading. See update. … I should have inserted "in general" after "liberal" above (like I did the other day) because in debates like this, apparently, every comma and word is open to attack. Better that, I guess, than debating the CBO’s estimates of increasing budget deficits and health-care costs.
