Democrats Retreat After CBO Exposes How Much Their Health Care Bill Will Cost

Yesterday the Congressional Budget Office announced that not only would the Democrat plan for nationalized health care cost $1 trillion, that it would push more than 15 million people on to government health care and only create access to health care for about 1/3 of Americans who don’t have it already.
Today the Democrats retreated by announcing that the push for nationalized health care is off, for now.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Overwhelmed by problems trying to write a bill overhauling the nation’s health care system, the Senate Finance Committee will postpone votes on the legislation until after the July 4th recess, two Democratic Senate sources confirmed to CNN.
The decision, which one source described as not 100 percent final, is a setback for Democrats who wanted the bill out of committee before the recess so the full Senate could have the entire month of July to debate health care reform.
Key stumbling blocks for the Democrats who control the committee include the high overall cost of the bill and the lack of any solid Republican support for the measure in its current form, one of the sources said.

The cost of nationalized health care is the biggest problem Democrats have. It’s why Obama has been busy talking about paygo, and suggesting that we can spend on nationalized health care now and pay for it later. It’s why Democrats have been trying to pretend like this isn’t a nationalized health care plan, but rather just “competition” to existing health care plans that will bring prices down.
Because if Americans realize that this is really about making as many of the dependent on the government for health care as possible, and if they realize how much it will cost them, they will never, ever support it.
So the Democrats are retreating for now, in the hope no doubt that Americans will forget about this CBO report. And in the hope that they find a better, more believable way to trick Americans into buying into their designs for nationalized health care.