Obama's Secret Plan to Control Your Healthcare

President serves candy now, spinach later: Krauthammer

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 24, 2009 1:48 PM CDT

(Newser) – President Obama is going to need more than a “cash-cow carbon tax” to fund his goals of “nationalized health care” and “federalized education,” writes Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post. Obama’s going to have to slash Social Security and Medicare. But his current health plan actually increases costs by $1 trillion. Obama’s spoken vaguely about “additional adjustments” coming, and Krauthammer knows what that means: rationing.

Why else would the stimulus include $1.1 billion for “comparative effectiveness research?” It’s so the government can fund the “best practices” for tests and operations, and deny the rest. You’ll have to wait for an MRI the way you’d now wait for a kidney. Obama’s trying to serve America the candy of universal healthcare first, “but there is no escaping rationing. In the end, the spinach must be served.”

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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at Trinity Structural Towers in Newton, Iowa, Wednesday, April 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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oldgoat

Apr 26, 2009 11:24 AM CDT

Maybe Terrified ought to also look a little bit at how much the US spends on health care and the results it gets compared to other countries. Maybe you ought to see the charts of the people without health insurance and then look at the bankruptcies and see that it is a leading cause of bamkruptcy. The Canadian system isn't perfect and Obama never said that he was going to have a Canadian system In fact he has come out in the past asking for imput from others on what would be the best way.

Doctor-Zaius

Apr 25, 2009 3:12 AM CDT

Cabbage-Banger is Racist? I am laughing out loud because nobody could be as stupid as that, oh wait, you still think Bush did a good job, scratch that part about nobody could be that stupid....

Doctor-Zaius

Apr 25, 2009 3:10 AM CDT

No Lula is not wrong and 72% of America +/- knows it. It's just the 28% crowd that you and the ironically named LibertyMan belong to that don't seem to get it.

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Obama's Secret Plan to Control Your Healthcare