Politico.com reports that key “White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and the deficit and instead stressing a promise to ‘improve it.’” It’s no surprise that Obamacare is not turning out to be what was promised. It seems the more the public gets to know about it, the less they like it.
And while some members of Congress and the President promised us that reform would cut costs, it is becoming increasingly clear that they were wrong. And now, facing the fact that Obamacare is becoming less popular with the public, many are doing what politicians do best, offering to “improve” the bad bill they passed in the first place. This is what happens when 2,500 page bills are passed without being read.
In other fiscal news, the Congressional Budget Office reports that over the last 31 months Congress has added more than $4.4 trillion to the federal budget baseline. In comparison, in 2005 total federal spending was only $2.47 trillion. Healthcare is a part of that equation, and I’d hate to see what the numbers will look like if we send the same elected officials back to “improve” on the $1 trillion piece of legislation they already passed. In order for the situation to really be improved, we need to send a new crop of legislators to Congress.
