By Herman Cain:
The rhetoric is confusing but the facts are not. The president and the Democrats are inflating, distorting and ignoring many of the verifiable facts about health care to increase public support for a total government takeover of our health care system.
In other words, they are taking advantage of the public’s health care ignorance.
The most misleading perception being perpetrated on the public is that somehow our government will be able to run a completely socialized system better than any other country in the world. Somehow our political elites will be able to avoid a system with rationing and massive cost overruns.
The trustees of the Medicare System just reported that Medicare will be operating in the red starting this year. That’s accounting lingo for losing money! What the trustees are not telling people is that indirect rationing is already underway through Medicare price controls and increased regulations.
Those are also facts the mainstream media have conveniently chosen not to report.
There are cost effective and non-traumatic ways to improve our health care system. Some changes need to be made, but to follow the failed path of countries who are now trying to undo the unavoidable pitfalls of government-controlled health care makes no sense at all.
It also makes no sense to continue to ignore the $56 trillion unfunded liability for Medicare, Social Security and other “entitlements”.
