Obamacare – The Wrong Side Of History « NewsReal Blog: "Nicholas D. Kristof writes today in The New York Times a column lashing out at the critics of Obamacare. He compares us to the opponents of Social Security and Medicare whom, he said, used the same “bogymen” arguments about socialist programs, killing jobs etc. He said that those members of Congress who “flinch” and let health care reform fail will be “on the wrong side of history.”
In touting the success of Medicare in particular, Mr. Kristof shows how wrong he is. Medicare is facing bankruptcy. It is fraught with abuse and waste. More and more doctors are pulling out of the system because they simply cannot afford to participate. Whatever good Medicare may have done in helping to ensure health care for the elderly who need it, it is far from being a model of success that would give Americans any comfort in how a much larger government-run program will operate.
In fact, as an admission of the fraud and waste besetting Medicare today, the sponsors of Obamacare intend to pay a sizable chunk of its cost by making massive cuts in Medicare, claiming that the services will not be diminished. If that were so, why haven’t these cuts been made already to save Medicare from looming bankruptcy?"
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