Why "Health Care Reform" is a Budget Buster

Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute explains in a powerful video why the current "health care reform" proposals will be disastrous from an economic standpoint.  Everyone concerned about this issue needs to watch and understand this YouTube:

Comments

[Bubba]

For the most part, those problems discussed on the video did not happen in a vacumn.

Certainly, some of the problem can be attributed to abject stupidity on the part of policymakers, but the major force driving the situations described comes from a concerted and well-planned effort to fulfill political/social/economic worldview agenda items.

There is no question regarding the identity of those responsible for this outrage. They're not conservatives.

[Joe Guarino]

Those responsible are not true conservatives, Bubba. But in some cases, they might have masqueraded as conservatives.

And I agree with your statements regarding the foolhardiness of these approaches, and the primacy of achieving certain agenda items.