[fhayek]

The author makes a mistake many liberals do. He takes current numbers (health care is currently 17% of GDP) and assumes that changes in policy will have no effect on them. Universal Health care, or even Obamacare will drive that percentage up. What happens when it is 20%, or 25%. As health care consumes resources, what happens to national security? Infrastructure? We are already running huge budget deficits and medicare deficits. The truth is, we cannot afford the health care we have now, and that was with a modicum of market forces. With those removed, we will invariably consume even more, IMHO.

One of the key problems is that we have developed medical technologies that are more and more costly. We all want the latest procedures/pharmaceuticals/prosthetics, but we want someone else to pay for them. The future promises more of the same. Handing out blank checks will not solve the problem, as I see it,

[Doogle]

.....IT’S ODUNGO’s objective....

[lodi90]

Articles like this are all about getting the ball rolling on the GOP helping to “fix” obamacare.

Something will have to be done. Over 50 million people we lose their employer provided health care and be dumped on the exchanges by their employers. Maybe 100 million. The GOP knows there will be way to repeal Democratcare once that back once it happens. So the GOP leadership is just sitting tight and letting it happen.