tangent4ronpaul
05-13-2010, 12:00 PM
http://www.news-register.net/page/content.detail/id/537715.html
One of President Barack Obama's big health care takeover selling points was that the whole thing would cost less than $1 trillion. Even that figure, incomprehensible to most Americans, was low - and there is no doubt Obama and his liberal cronies in Congress knew it.
Congressional budget analysts say the new health care law probably will cost at least $115 billion more than had been claimed.
The additional funding was not included in Congressional Budget Office estimates during the weeks before Congress enacted the health care measure. At the time, conservatives maintained the CBO cost estimate was wrong. Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, in essence, that the critics were lying.
They were telling the truth. Obviously, the liberals were not.
In order to get the official cost estimates below $1 trillion, the White House and congressional liberals used what amounts to a dirty, dishonest little trick. They wrote the law to call for certain programs but did not include funding for them. Now Congress has the choice of either rewriting the law to rescind politically popular specifics - or appropriating the money to pay for them.
Deception used to enact the health care takeover was breathtaking in its scope. Now, however, the public is learning that conservatives who opposed the plan were being honest about their concerns - about the cost of the program for Americans both as taxpayers and as health care consumers.
We hope that will provide momentum for those who have suggested revisiting the bill.
One of President Barack Obama's big health care takeover selling points was that the whole thing would cost less than $1 trillion. Even that figure, incomprehensible to most Americans, was low - and there is no doubt Obama and his liberal cronies in Congress knew it.
Congressional budget analysts say the new health care law probably will cost at least $115 billion more than had been claimed.
The additional funding was not included in Congressional Budget Office estimates during the weeks before Congress enacted the health care measure. At the time, conservatives maintained the CBO cost estimate was wrong. Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, in essence, that the critics were lying.
They were telling the truth. Obviously, the liberals were not.
In order to get the official cost estimates below $1 trillion, the White House and congressional liberals used what amounts to a dirty, dishonest little trick. They wrote the law to call for certain programs but did not include funding for them. Now Congress has the choice of either rewriting the law to rescind politically popular specifics - or appropriating the money to pay for them.
Deception used to enact the health care takeover was breathtaking in its scope. Now, however, the public is learning that conservatives who opposed the plan were being honest about their concerns - about the cost of the program for Americans both as taxpayers and as health care consumers.
We hope that will provide momentum for those who have suggested revisiting the bill.