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.... Read full story »

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