Obama’s health bill is not of the same quality as those big spending bills beloved of the US Democrats before.
It takes some ingenuity to add to the costs, inefficiency, and dysfunctions that government has already bequeathed to our health-care system, but the Democrats have proven themselves up to the challenge. Almost nothing about this legislation is free of dispute, but we are convinced that it will increase taxes, increase premiums, and increase debt, while decreasing economic growth, job growth, and the quality of health care.
The New Deal of FDR and the civil rights bill of LBJ had significant Republican and popular support. Read the rest of this entry »
