The New Media Journal | Healthcare: Who Are the Know-Nothings? by AJ DiCintio

The New Media Journal | Healthcare: Who Are the Know-Nothings? by AJ DiCintio: "As Tuesday’s vote revealed, Americans are strongly devoted to individualism, one happy aspect of which is that they are possessed of an abhorrence to being told what to think, a truth that explains why people are drawing their own conclusions regarding this question:

Which Americans are behaving with anti-intellectual, hateful ignorance in the debate regarding the Obama/Pelosi/Reid healthcare bills making their way through Congress?

To answer that question, common sense folks begin by stipulating some of what is currently known about the bills, for example —

The final version will be advertised as costing $1 trillion over the next decade. However, the real cost is certain to be shockingly greater for at least two reasons.

First, Congress has never come within a million miles of correctly estimating the actual cost of any of its healthcare plans.

Second, to insure that cost estimates will be low-balled by the CBO, Democrats have put in a fiscal fix that initiates taxes for Obamacare in 2010 but waits until 2013 (conveniently one year after the Election of 2012) to gradually implement the plan.

How to pay for a program that affects 16% of the nation’s economy?

Well, Democrats claim they’ll get $400 billion from Medicare — without ever explaining to seniors and the rest of the nation how they’ll get that kind of money without reducing services, cutting services, or increasing Medicare premiums.

Democrats also tell us they’ll raise another $400 billion by increasing taxes on the rich as much as 30%, taxes that, like the Alternative Minimum Tax, will grow with inflation every year.

But a tax on the rich has never brought in the revenue projected."