Robert J Samuelson the economics columnist for Newsweek magazine and the Washington Post must be a lonely man at those publications. In his latest column he calls Obama's health care plan "Malpractice." A few quotes:
There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called "health-care reform." Everyone knows that the United States faces massive governmental budget deficits as far as calculators can project, ....
It would create new, open-ended medical entitlements that threaten higher deficits and would do little to suppress surging health costs. The disconnect between what President Obama says and what he's doing is so glaring that most people could not abide it. The president, his advisers and allies have no trouble. But reconciling blatantly contradictory objectives requires them to engage in willful self-deception, public dishonesty, or both....
The campaign to pass Obama's health-care plan has assumed a false, though understandable, cloak of moral superiority....
The pretense of moral superiority further erodes before all the expedient deceptions used to sell Obama's health-care agenda. ......
To read the entire column outlining Obama's "deceptions" click on the title for a link .....it's well worth your time.
