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BernieCare and Sanders' Lies
How Sanders' proposed replacement for Obamacare will bankrupt America much sooner.
February 17, 2016
Matthew Vadum
Socialist Bernie Sanders is lying about the crushing cost of his quixotic government-run universal health care scheme because he can.
Sanders and the true-believers who surround him claim implausibly that BernieCare will save America $6 trillion over a decade. Forbes, on the other hand, asserts that BernieCare could lead to an astonishing $44 trillion in new federal spending over a decade.
Of course, facts are malleable things to the Left.
The insurgent candidate for the Democrats' presidential nomination will never admit just how damaging his totalitarian approach to health care delivery would be to America. That's because Sanders is a Marxist ideologue to whom money isn't something real. Sanders and the other small-c communists who dominate today's Democratic Party regard people as playthings, and they don't care about the laws of economics, which they regard as obstacles to be overcome in the furtherance of social progress. And the mainstream media, for the most part, is in no hurry to hold the Independent senator from Vermont to account.
To some, single-payer health care seemed like a good idea around World War Two.
As Holman W. Jenkins Jr. explains in the Wall Street Journal, single-payer systems spread throughout industrialized nations in the 1940s "as a way to expand access to the relatively few things medical care at the time could do for patients." In many countries it was an easy sell because it could be argued it benefited both consumers and providers of health care.
No longer, Jenkins writes.
"We live in a different time. If the U.S. were to embark on a single-payer system today, as Bernie Sanders proposes, it would not be doing so to expand access—though that slogan would still be used—but for a very different reason: to deny and limit care in order to control spending.
"This agenda would be popular with neither patients nor providers, and therefore would be dead in the water—as liberal authorities, from the New York Times’s Paul Krugman to Henry J. Aaron of the Brookings Institution, have suddenly discovered an urgency to point out to Democratic voters infatuated with Bernie Sanders.
"Mr. Sanders knows it too. His socialism is farcical in a country that can’t afford the entitlements it already has."
Although the media swoons when Sanders calls himself a socialist, the abrasive senator isn't all that radical in Democrat circles. He's just more honest and blunt in his rhetoric than other radicals like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Sure, he lies just as all American socialists lie to sell despotism to the public, but unlike Hillary he at least admits what he is proposing is actually socialist. President Obama prefers to hide behind words like fairness when justifying his un-American socioeconomic leveling.
The lie that socialism provides benefits to citizens without cost often works because people don't understand economics. What economics they are taught in school tends to be of the Keynesian or socialist variety.
So smug economic illiterates like academic Gerard F. Anderson can get away with the topsy-turvy assertion that consumer choice and competition are market factors that make health care more -- not less -- expensive.
"We're paying quite a high amount for having a lot of choice among different health insurance systems," he said, ignoring the role that regulations and government mandates play in artificially boosting health care costs.
"So Americans like choice; we just have to pay for it," said Anderson, a professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins University who is also on the payroll of the radical Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, one of the biggest funders of left-wing activism in America.
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Sticking it to "the rich" is Bernie's solution to every problem.
It's also the solution to every problem in today's radicalized Democratic Party.
BernieCare and Sanders' Lies
BernieCare and Sanders' Lies
How Sanders' proposed replacement for Obamacare will bankrupt America much sooner.
February 17, 2016
Matthew Vadum
Socialist Bernie Sanders is lying about the crushing cost of his quixotic government-run universal health care scheme because he can.
Sanders and the true-believers who surround him claim implausibly that BernieCare will save America $6 trillion over a decade. Forbes, on the other hand, asserts that BernieCare could lead to an astonishing $44 trillion in new federal spending over a decade.
Of course, facts are malleable things to the Left.
The insurgent candidate for the Democrats' presidential nomination will never admit just how damaging his totalitarian approach to health care delivery would be to America. That's because Sanders is a Marxist ideologue to whom money isn't something real. Sanders and the other small-c communists who dominate today's Democratic Party regard people as playthings, and they don't care about the laws of economics, which they regard as obstacles to be overcome in the furtherance of social progress. And the mainstream media, for the most part, is in no hurry to hold the Independent senator from Vermont to account.
To some, single-payer health care seemed like a good idea around World War Two.
As Holman W. Jenkins Jr. explains in the Wall Street Journal, single-payer systems spread throughout industrialized nations in the 1940s "as a way to expand access to the relatively few things medical care at the time could do for patients." In many countries it was an easy sell because it could be argued it benefited both consumers and providers of health care.
No longer, Jenkins writes.
"We live in a different time. If the U.S. were to embark on a single-payer system today, as Bernie Sanders proposes, it would not be doing so to expand access—though that slogan would still be used—but for a very different reason: to deny and limit care in order to control spending.
"This agenda would be popular with neither patients nor providers, and therefore would be dead in the water—as liberal authorities, from the New York Times’s Paul Krugman to Henry J. Aaron of the Brookings Institution, have suddenly discovered an urgency to point out to Democratic voters infatuated with Bernie Sanders.
"Mr. Sanders knows it too. His socialism is farcical in a country that can’t afford the entitlements it already has."
Although the media swoons when Sanders calls himself a socialist, the abrasive senator isn't all that radical in Democrat circles. He's just more honest and blunt in his rhetoric than other radicals like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Sure, he lies just as all American socialists lie to sell despotism to the public, but unlike Hillary he at least admits what he is proposing is actually socialist. President Obama prefers to hide behind words like fairness when justifying his un-American socioeconomic leveling.
The lie that socialism provides benefits to citizens without cost often works because people don't understand economics. What economics they are taught in school tends to be of the Keynesian or socialist variety.
So smug economic illiterates like academic Gerard F. Anderson can get away with the topsy-turvy assertion that consumer choice and competition are market factors that make health care more -- not less -- expensive.
"We're paying quite a high amount for having a lot of choice among different health insurance systems," he said, ignoring the role that regulations and government mandates play in artificially boosting health care costs.
"So Americans like choice; we just have to pay for it," said Anderson, a professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins University who is also on the payroll of the radical Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, one of the biggest funders of left-wing activism in America.
...
Sticking it to "the rich" is Bernie's solution to every problem.
It's also the solution to every problem in today's radicalized Democratic Party.
BernieCare and Sanders' Lies
