Health Care Repair Or Unfair?

Wednesday’s NYT reports in a front page story about Sen. Obama claim that his health care plan would “bring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family.”  The story reports:

Whether Mr. Obama can deliver is a matter of considerable dispute among health analysts and economists. While there is consensus that the American health care system is bloated with waste, eliminating enough to save $2,500 per family would require simultaneous and synergistic solutions to a host of problems that have proved intractable for decades.

Even if the next president and Congress can muster the political will, analysts question whether significant savings would materialize in as little as four years, or even in 10. But as Mr. Obama confronts an electorate that is deeply unsettled by escalating health costs, he is offering a precise “chicken in every pot” guarantee based on numbers that are largely unknowable. Furthermore, it is not completely clear what he is promising.

In other words, BO is full of BS.  This is the polite way the NYT’s deals with Democrats when even the Times can’t cover their butts.

The article also gives away the truth about “free” health care “reform.”  Towards the end, the reporter sums up the views of “a number of health policy experts,” who hold that “(r)educing health care costs . . . means taking money from someone’s pocket and rationing care that Americans have come to expect . . .”  This is the story that few understand; governmentally expanded health care will hurt those who are already insured and those who are voluntarily uninsured.

I would also like to note that a Rand study claims Sen. Obama’s $2500 savings, which isn’t likely to happen at all, would not be seen for 15 years.  That would be five years longer than the Democrats claim is too long to wait for oil from new domestic drilling.

I’ll end with a prediction if this is enacted: when this government intervention in the economy fails, and it will, the market will somehow be to blame.  And the only answer, of course: even more government intervention in health care!