Well, in any case, she’s certainly lying.
Kinda what I was thinkin’. She may or may not be waiting but she sure as heck is lyin’. Anytime her lips move.
Hillary came to Philadelphia to tout the benefits for her plan and they had all of these planted questioners lobbing softball questions to her:
Example:
- Q: “My child has had xxxxx disease and it’s been a struggle xxxx ... I don’t work and have never held a job .. will they be covered fully?”
- A: Of course, all their bills will be covered and it will actually save money because of the inefficiencies that will be removed from the system .. and so on.
So I got in line and asked a different sort of question:
Q: There have been recent Medicare scandals where the CBO faulted the agency for being overly bureacratic and inefficient and also stated that fraud constituted significant portion of the dollars spent. My question has two parts:
- Since the federal government already controls a significant portion of the healthcare market via Medicare, how will your plan be any more efficient and less fraudulent than Medicare
- For every person that has already asked you a question, your answer has been that all their ailments will be covered, and they’ll pay less than they are paying now, or will pay nothing if they can’t afford to make payments. I’m skeptical that there will be anywhere near the level of savings in your plan that you are promising and I fear that your plan will lead to an explosion of our debt, unless care is rationed. Since you seem so confident in the savings, will you include language in your plan that the amount that is spent on your program cannot exceed the amount that is budgeted and that the budgeted amount cannot add to our debt?
Hillary stammered for a few minutes and then C. Everett Koop (the quaker oats guy) told me I shouldn’t be so concerned about the money and the cost and should be focused on the more altruistic parts of the plan.