The Great 'Prevention' Myth

WASHINGTON POST, 8/14/2009 by Charles Krauthammer (Hat tip: John H. Detweiler) - In the 48 hours of June 15-16, President Obama lost the health-care debate. First, a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Sen. Edward Kennedy reported that his health committee's reform bill would add $1 trillion in debt over the next decade. Then the CBO reported that the other Senate bill, being written by the Finance Committee, would add $1.6 trillion. The central contradiction of Obamacare was fatally exposed: From his first address to Congress, Obama insisted on the dire need for restructuring the health-care system because out-of-control costs were bankrupting the Treasury and wrecking the U.S. economy -- yet the Democrats' plans would make the problem worse. Read more at the Washington Post and find out why 'prevention' does not save money as Obama claims... (not that we're opposed to preventive medicine).

John says, "No matter how simplistic we make things, they are never simple."