Reagan came into office promising to eliminate "waste and fraud" and save billions. It didn't happen. Like Reagan, Obama has made grand promises and his budget is wishful thinking. Like Reagan, he’s long on inspiration and short on arithmetic. Obama is promising to reform and vastly expand health care, to renew education, to remake the energy, and auto industries, to save the banking system and to end the recession.
He’s going to do these things all this and, at the same time, cut the deficit in half by 2013.
I do enjoy wishful thinking. Isn't that part of why we're in the current econonic mess?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29388258/ August 21, 2009
WASHINGTON - White House officials and Democrats in Congress say the fears of older Americans about possible rationing of health care are based on myths and falsehoods. But Medicare beneficiaries and insurance counselors say the concerns are not entirely irrational.
Bills now in Congress would squeeze savings out of Medicare, a lifeline for the elderly, on the assumption that doctors and hospitals can be more efficient.
President Obama has sold health care legislation to Congress and the country as a way to slow the growth of federal health spending, no less than as a way to regulate the insurance market and cover the uninsured.
The zeal for cutting health costs, combined with proposals to compare the effectiveness of various treatments and to counsel seniors on end-of-life care, may explain why some people think the legislation is about rationing, which could affect access to the most expensive services in the final months of life.
A Basis Is Seen for Some Health Plan Fears Among the Elderly
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