Health Care BS

Add Jeff Goldsmith to the growing ranks of health care experts who doubt that the Obama adminsitration has any serious plan to pay for what they hilariously call “reform.” Goldsmith describes the the evolution of their financing strategy over at Health Affairs. Here’s the money quote:

Opaque, faith-based financing was a major ingredient in sinking the Clinton health reforms. “Believable fictions,� “Don’t Look at the Man Behind the Curtain,� and “We can do this without raising taxes� did not cut it with Congress or the voters in 1994. Unless there is a secret vein of platinum running under Capitol Hill, there will not be a subterranean solution to paying for health reform. It’s time to show us the money.

At the risk of being labeled a cynic, I think our collective wallet is the best place to look for the money that Obama and his congressional accomplices plan to spend on “reform.” They are planning to raise taxes, and not merely on people making over $250,000 per year.

Which will, I suppose, help with the obesity epidemic. When Obama has finished “reforming” health care, your wallet is going to be thinner and lighter.