Comments on: Those Who Forget History… http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/20/those-who-forget-history/ Up To The Minute Analysis Of Ohio Public Policy Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:34:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: token liberal http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/20/those-who-forget-history/comment-page-1/#comment-5298 token liberal Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:47:36 +0000 http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/?p=4534#comment-5298 OK--you write for the Buckeye Institute, my screen name is "token liberal." If we don't disagree on this, then what's the point? OK–you write for the Buckeye Institute, my screen name is “token liberal.” If we don’t disagree on this, then what’s the point?

]]> By: Marc Kilmer http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/20/those-who-forget-history/comment-page-1/#comment-5293 Marc Kilmer Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:18:08 +0000 http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/?p=4534#comment-5293 Yes, we are going to have to pay for all this deficit spending eventually. That's why it's a bad idea to add to it. I guess you and I will differ on whether these proposals are "good" or not. I think they will only make our current problems worse. We certainly need health care reform, but such "reform" should actually fix the problems we see today, not exacerbate them. Yes, we are going to have to pay for all this deficit spending eventually. That’s why it’s a bad idea to add to it.

I guess you and I will differ on whether these proposals are “good” or not. I think they will only make our current problems worse. We certainly need health care reform, but such “reform” should actually fix the problems we see today, not exacerbate them.

]]> By: token liberal http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/20/those-who-forget-history/comment-page-1/#comment-5290 token liberal Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:54:25 +0000 http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/?p=4534#comment-5290 Well, we are going to have to pay for it, eventually. Letting the Bush tax cuts expire is a good start. As for everyone not being covered--I agree, it's a shortcoming. However, at this point, 15 years after Clinton's plan was killed and those who killed it broke their promise to come up with their own plan, I am not willing to sacrifice the good on the alter of the perfect. Well, we are going to have to pay for it, eventually. Letting the Bush tax cuts expire is a good start. As for everyone not being covered–I agree, it’s a shortcoming. However, at this point, 15 years after Clinton’s plan was killed and those who killed it broke their promise to come up with their own plan, I am not willing to sacrifice the good on the alter of the perfect.

]]> By: Marc Kilmer http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/20/those-who-forget-history/comment-page-1/#comment-5288 Marc Kilmer Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:29:41 +0000 http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/?p=4534#comment-5288 You'd have a point if we actually had the money to fund the Iraq War and all those other things. Unfortunately, we borrowed the money for them and we'll be borrowing the money to pay for this boondoggle. And before you say that it won't add to the deficit, let me predict that it will cost more than expected, the savings from trimming Medicare won't materialize, and the out-year costs will be very, very high (the spending on this plan begins three years after enactment and rises every year, leading to ballooning spending after ten years). And the idea that "all Americans will have access to health care" because of these proposed bills is wrong, as even their sponsors acknowledge. All this money will be spent and there will still be millions of uninsured Americans. You’d have a point if we actually had the money to fund the Iraq War and all those other things. Unfortunately, we borrowed the money for them and we’ll be borrowing the money to pay for this boondoggle. And before you say that it won’t add to the deficit, let me predict that it will cost more than expected, the savings from trimming Medicare won’t materialize, and the out-year costs will be very, very high (the spending on this plan begins three years after enactment and rises every year, leading to ballooning spending after ten years).

And the idea that “all Americans will have access to health care” because of these proposed bills is wrong, as even their sponsors acknowledge. All this money will be spent and there will still be millions of uninsured Americans.

]]> By: token liberal http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/20/those-who-forget-history/comment-page-1/#comment-5279 token liberal Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:10:38 +0000 http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/?p=4534#comment-5279 We had a trillion dollars to spend in Iraq, we had a billion dollars to bail out AIG and other inept corporations, so as far as I am concerned, we can can spend $100 billion a year (so yes, a trillion dollars over ten years) so that all Americans can have access to health care. We had a trillion dollars to spend in Iraq, we had a billion dollars to bail out AIG and other inept corporations, so as far as I am concerned, we can can spend $100 billion a year (so yes, a trillion dollars over ten years) so that all Americans can have access to health care.

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