More Health Care Blah Blah
The pretend health care debate continued last night with more “blah blah” from one side of the aisle.
Arnold Kling makes a pretty good summary of the speech here.
Medicare spending will never be brought under control under his watch. And if Medicare spending is not brought under control, then he certainly will not be the last President to have to address health care reform.
Basically, it was a “Win one for the Gipper” (in this case, Ted Kennedy) speech. Intellectually, it amounted to a vacuous claim that health reform will be a free lunch, because we’ll get rid of all the waste, fraud, and abuse.
via What’s Wrong with Obama’s Health Care Speech – The Atlantic Business Channel.
Blah blah let’s just start this revolution and get the darn thing over with…
