Health Care Summary

August 19, 2009 / 11:11 am • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

While politicians and policy wonks get lost in minutiae, it’s important to remember the essential truths about the health care debate:

1. The Democrats control the House, the Senate & the Executive Branch. They can do whatever they want. Republicans are window dressing designed to give political cover for bad policy.

2. America cannot afford a new entitlement program and that’s what any Democratic plan will be.

3. To pay for this new program, taxes will rise.

4. To cut costs, rationing will be the solution.

5. The fight is between Progressives who want Government Run Health Care and Moderate Democrats who know they will never be re-elected if they vote for this mess. Thus the talk of “intraparty reconciliation“.

6. This is a Democrat problem. The Republicans should not give wrong-headed Democrats political cover by coming up with some half-assed, moronic legislation that solves nothing.

I am sick of the health care debate. I wonder if under Obama’s plan, there will be a drug that helps people deal with stupid politicians. I bet they give out free Xanax.

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