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Pancho Villa
09-08-2012, 08:33
Hope you guys are healthy. I'm running and hitting the gym a little more often, not to mention eating better. I don't plan on depending on doctors unless I really have to.

http://pjmedia.com/blog/in-top-journal-obamacare-boosters-push-global-spending-target/?singlepage=true


Free-market economists have long known that “controls breed controls.” In health care, leading Obamacare supporters are now proposing unprecedented new government controls over all medical spending — private as well as public — to “solve” problems caused by prior controls. Welcome to ObamaCare 2.0.

In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), several prominent Obamacare supporters have called for a binding “global spending target for both public and private payers.” In regular English, this means a government-enforced cap on how much Americans may spend in aggregate on their health care, both public and private. The co-authors of this article include former Obama administration officials Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (former White House health care advisor and brother of Rahm Emanuel, former White House chief of staff), Dr. Donald Berwick (former head of Medicare), and Peter Orszag (former budget director).