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Paul Ryan's Speech on Health Care ReformOf ObamaCare he says "Repeal & Replace," which I understand has become some kind of dirty word among some conservatives, who insist, contrary to the evidence, that almost nothing needs to be done in the area of health care. That's not true. Health care is currently a weird blend of socialism and waste. Costs continue going up 2 or 3 times faster than GDP. There is something screwed up on a fundamental level here. But the law’s new open-ended entitlement programs are its biggest failure. One has been described as a classic “insurance death spiral,” and the other requires an additional trillion in new federal spending. Both are fiscally unsustainable, and estimates suggest the costs could be much higher than initially projected. Obama's plan is very nasty for seniors. Very nasty. This is the most under-reported political story of the decade. While Obama and the Democrats run a Mediscare campaign, it's their own policies that should be scaring the living hell out of seniors. Just last week, the President rolled out a deficit-reduction plan that doubled down on his bureaucratic approach to controlling Medicare costs, first advanced in his health-care law last year. As I keep saying here, "Business as usual" is not even on the table. Neither party actually proposes to keep the current system going. So seniors who want the current system to keep on going -- you lose. No one's even talking about that. The Republican plan is to reform the system so that costs do not continue to skyrocket. The Democratic plan is to do no reforms to the system at all, and just cut the amount of money paid to health-service providers -- who, let me be clear, will simply stop treating Medicare patients. Oh, the sort of doctors who can't otherwise attract a clientele will treat them; but the sort of doctors willing to work for the government's cost-controlled cut-rate reimbursements are not, let us say, top shelf. So both parties propose cutting Medicare spending. Only one party proposes reforms to the system that actually might blunt the impact of reduced spending. That is, if spending goes down, but a reformed system results in lower prices, too, then the actual net effect of that reduced spending is lessened. The other party just wants to savagely reduce reimbursements for those who actually treat seniors, so they can continue to piss away money on Solyndra and ObamaCare For Everyone (TM). Those are the choices on the table. "Let's just keeping doing what we've been doing" is not among them. Thanks to Dave @ Garfield Ridge.
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