Quote of the Day: “Democrats are using smoke and mirrors to hide the impact of their health plans. Existing estimates, therefore, reflect only a fraction of the total cost.” — Michael F. Cannon of the Cato Institute, writing in the Atlanta Journal-Constition
Subject: The politicians aren’t telling you about all the costs
The politicians are lying to you about the true costs of their massive health care plan.
In fact, they’re lying to you in several ways, using fraudulent accounting tricks and sleights of hand.
We’ll be exposing their tricks this week. Here’s the first one . . .
The Big Government health care bill delays the full implementation of the overall scheme until after the 10-year period evaluated by the Congressional Budget Office. This allows those who favor the bill to claim it will cost “only” $1.2 trillion, when in fact it will cost at least 50% more than that once the whole thing is in place.
If the public is going to accurately debate the cost of this program, and decide whether it’s worth it, then they ought to know what the cost of the full program actually is. Congress should confess, and let the public know the true cost.
Please send Congress another letter opposing the Big Government health care bill.
This time use your personal comments to say something like the following . . .
“I know that the programs created by the big health care bill won’t be fully implemented until after the 10-year period evaluated by the Congressional Budget Office. I suspect this has been done to hide the true cost, which will probably be at least 50% higher than the $1.2 trillion reported by the CBO. Please undo this fraud by having the CBO report what the 10-year cost of the full program will be.”
After you’ve sent your letter to Congress please also alert others, and ask them to send a similar message to Congress using DownsizeDC.org’s Educate the Powerful System (sm).
Thank you for being a part of the growing Downsize DC Army.
Jim Babka
President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.