The Myth of Free Health Care

What you learn early in life is that nothing comes free, and if it does, it's probably crap anyway. Yet, people insist on upholding free-isms as some kind of salvation to the pre-WWII order. Unsurprisingly, they're often dead wrong. Take the ObamaCare for instance, which is everything but "free": The $1 trillion number doesn’t even tickle the meter, and that’s a big problem for Democrats. They argue that the reforms will save a trillion dollars, making ObamaCare deficit-neutral over ten years, but none of the plans come in under that price. Just to move 30% net of the uninsured onto health plans will take more that $300 billion above that ceiling, making it an addition to an already astronomical deficit pattern. What exactly does $4 trillion and a public plan buy us, besides even higher deficits over the next ten years? A... [read full story]                    

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