I guess in last night's big Speech, President Obama said his health care plan wouldn't add to the deficit. As Thomas Sowell points out:
To tell us, with a straight face, that he can insure millions more people without adding to the already skyrocketing deficit, is world-class chutzpah and an insult to anyone's intelligence . . .
Even those who can believe that Obama can conjure up the money through eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse" should ask themselves where he is going to conjure up the additional doctors, nurses and hospitals needed to take care of millions more patients.
And how much harder is it going to be to pay for health care if all those doctors and nurses are unionized, much like the unions that ruined the auto industry. That's what could happen under provisions in the Democrat's health care provisions.
Mark Mix writing in the Wall Street Journal today lets us in on the dirty little secret of health care reform:
[T]he Senate bill creates a "personal care attendants workforce advisory panel" that will likely impose union affiliation to qualify for a newly created "community living assistance services and support (class)" reimbursement plan.
The current House version of ObamaCare (H.R. 3200) goes much further. Section 225(A) grants Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius tremendous discretionary authority to regulate health-care workers "under the public health insurance option." Monopoly bargaining and compulsory union dues may quickly become a required standard resulting in potentially hundreds of thousands of doctors and nurses across the country being forced into unions.
And forcing health care workers into unions will not decrease health care costs. Rather the opposite. Also it will fill union coffers with dues to be given to Democrats.
And you thought health care reform was for the good of the country?
And it gets worse:
History shows union bosses could abuse their power to shut down medical facilities with sick-outs and strikes; force doctors, nurses and in-home care providers to abandon their patients; dictate terms and conditions of employment; and impose a failed, Detroit-style management model on the entire health-care field.
So how'd you like to go to the doctor only to learn he's on strike? That after your 8 week wait to get in due to the rationing Obamacare will impose.
So Obamacare becomes the gift that keeps on giving: larger deficits, worse health care, and more unions. No wonder the Democrats love it.
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