WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says agreement on an energy bill and a promise by interest groups to squeeze trillions of dollars in savings from the health care system show that change has come to Washington.
Some of those most opposed to past attempts at health care overhaul pledged this week to reduce the annual rate of growth in such spending by 1.5 percentage points, for a promised savings of $2 trillion in the next decade.
Weeks of negotiations have led to the introduction in the House of an energy proposal that, for the first time, would mandate reductions in the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming and shift the country toward cleaner sources of energy.Obama campaigned for president on a promise to change the way Washington works.
He said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address that he was heartened by the ''willingness of those with different points of view and disparate interests to come together around common goals, to embrace a shared sense of responsibility and make historic progress.''
Electronic records, preventive care, better information, etc.. may be good ideas, but they will not cover the hundreds of billions in costs nationalizing health care will bring. An additional load of nonsense was this prize:
The climate bill will help create millions of jobs producing wind turbines and solar panels, and developing alternative fuels with the goal of reducing U.S. reliance on foreign energy sources, he said. Controlling health care costs will make businesses more competitive and give families more money to save or spend.
Green jobs is a canard, in the real world Obama is pushing the ethanol disaster and the "jobs" created are as real as jobs he has "saved".
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ReplyDeleteWhen has government helped to save money on ANYTHING? There's absolutely no way we will save money by putting health care in government hands. NO WAY. And government-run health care will work more poorly in the U.S. that anywhere else in the world.
ReplyDeleteEthnically homogeneous nations like Sweeden and Japan can work out their differences much more easily than we can. That enables them to make the compromises that make their health care somewhat more affordable. But we have a diverse population with a big sense of entitlement. They're just not going to accept the fact that they can't have dialysis because their over the age of 65 or that hip replacement because there's a 9 month wait.
What are we going to do when health care goes up to 60% of GDP?