Comments on: OBAMA PROPOSES NEW BUREAUCRACY TO IMPOSE PRICE CONTROLS ON INSURANCE

By: Villagers with Torches

Villagers with Torches — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:14:22 +0000

The talk and the walk…

Image by Speaker Pelosi via FlickrYesterday I heard the One utter some words along the lines of .. ‘if the repubs want to campaign on repealing help for sick kids and give control to the piratical, blood dripping from their……

By: Catron

Catron — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:25:50 +0000

I think he may be shrewder (in a bad way) than we’re giving him credit for here.

You may well be right. Recent history does seem to follow the following pattern:

1) Govt meddles with system.
2) System malfunctions.
3) Govt says “market failed.”
4) Go to # 1

By: Paul Hsieh, MD

Paul Hsieh, MD — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:14:59 +0000

This might not necessarily be stupidity. If the cost controls lead to unhappy patients deprived of coverage, the leftists can deflect consumer rage against the private insurance companies. Then ride in as “white knights” offering a state-run “public option” as the “solution”.

I think he may be shrewder (in a bad way) than we’re giving him credit for here.