The Office of Management and Budget just issued a report proving (for anyone susceptible to objective data) that government-run health care is a monumentally bad idea:
Improper payments in the Medicare and Medicaid programs totaled $55 billion in fiscal 2009, according to documents provided by OMB.
Medicare and Medicaid, our progressive friends tell us, are the most succesful government programs in history. One hesitates to ask what failure would look like.
So, here’s a question: Would anyone in his right mind suggest giving more money and power to an entity so absurdly inefficient that it throws money away in such quantities?
No? Well, I guess OMB Director Peter Orszag is nuts. He believes this report constitutes evidence that we need “reform,” by which he means EXPANDING government’s role in health care:
In reality, this report gives us 55 billion reasons to “just say no” to government-run health care.
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