Health Care BS

Answer: the government agency that must administer whatever health care boondoggle the Democrats finally settle on was about to release its cost estimates. Pelosi and her accomplices wanted to get the fraud bill passed before the public saw the real cost.

And its not hard to see why they were worried. Turns out this huge tax increase reform bill will dramatically increase health care costs. The the main numbers guy at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says Pelosicare will jack them up by $289 billion:

The House-approved healthcare overhaul would raise the costs of healthcare by $289 billion over the next 10 years, according to an analysis by the chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Republicans were pushing for an early release of this report, but the Dems were never going to allow that. And one can see why:

The CMS report is a blow to the White House and House Democrats who have vowed that healthcare reform would curb the growth of healthcare spending … the CMS analysis clearly states that the House bill falls short in attaining a key goal of the Democrats’ effort to reform the nation’s healthcare system.

This is not about controlling health costs or reforming health care. It’s just a way of stealing your money (and whatever they can get from your children and grandchildren). It is, as Michelle Malkin puts it, “another massive act of generational theft.”

UPDATE:

It looks like CMS is going to receive the same treatment the CBO got when it produced plausible cost estimates (as opposed to preposterous White House/congressional figures).

Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the Ministry of Truth Office of Health Reform, insinuated that the CMS actuaries should mind their own business and keep their mouths shut:

[DeParle] pushed back Sunday on the CMS report that concluded Medicare beneficiaries could lose access to health care providers under the House bill. “This is not something they normally do …”

The folks at CMS had better be careful. The folks at the White House don’t like people who can actually do the math.