Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The Cost of Health-care Reform 2 & 3

You can find subsequent parts of The Heritage Foundation's week-long series on the costs of health-care reform at their blog, The Foundry.  They have an entire category of health care, with articles they have generated as well as links to enough other sources to give the interested reader an admirable breadth of information on the issues involved with the current debate.
 
Part Two is titled "Obamacare sends Deficits Off Cliff" and quotes an article at the Washington Post titled "Health Reform Shell Game." The Post article cites "smoke and mirrors" in the Baucus bill that you should find interesting. Neither are long reads, both are well-researched and have enough evidential citations to satisfy even the most discriminating (or biased) reader.
 
Part Three is titled "It's All Downhill From Here."  Here's a quote:
"The scariest part about yesterday's Senate Finance Committee vote passing its version of Obamacare, is not what is in their bill (to the extent that it even exists), but that the Finance Committee bill promises to be the high water mark for "bipartisanship" in health care reform.
 
Now all of the other bills will be merged together behind the closed doors. All the bills are fundamentally flawed and will only get worse as the leaders in the House and Senate have to commit to actual details."