Darrell Issa: "Reform is Needed, But Don't Use Medicare as a Model"

Representative Darrell Issa writes in Roll Call a good analysis of the problems with the BHO Administration's approach to "HEALTHFARE" - my term for the Healthcare/Welfare being proposed.

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"The key component of President Barack Obama’s plan for change is a government-run insurance option that would provide universal coverage at a staggering cost with limited options for the poor. Under the Obama/Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) scheme, the uninsured and underinsured will be enrolled in a plan modeled after Medicare — a program that will be bankrupt by the year 2018. Not content with only running the American auto, banking, mortgage and insurance industries, the president is now positioning himself to be our physician in chief.

How’s this sound for reform? Take one of the most fiscally problematic and bureaucratically bloated federal programs in modern history and replicate it on a universal scale. Mix it up with an apothecary’s dose of rhetorical hallucinogens, and package it nicely with the label of change and hope that the country buys it."


Read the article for a good understanding of potential problems.