Buffett said we should "start over." And he said, correctly, that the main health care problem is runaway costs and that the bill that the president is pushing "unfortunately ... doesn't attack the cost situation that much."
Yet, in his remarks in Missouri, the president said, "...let me tell you, we've incorporated almost every serious idea from across the political spectrum about how to contain rising health care costs. There's not an idea out there that we have not worked on, that we have not included in this proposal."
At the recent White House health care summit, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-- Wisc., challenged with clarity the massive accounting gimmicks and hallucinatory economic assumptions that Democrats have used to present this massive budget busting disaster of a bill as a prudent deficit cutting measure.
Ryan, speaking for Republicans, showed that the 10-year costs are in reality $2.3 trillion, rather than under a trillion as claimed. It's all been ignored.
In the one laboratory experiment we have -- Massachusetts, which enacted a state plan similar to what Democrats want for the nation -- premiums are now the highest in nation, and per capital health expenditures are 27 percent higher than the national average.
Every freedom-loving American patriot that cares about our future should be on the phone today to their senators and congressmen saying "stop."