Under Obamacare, Health Care Costs Would Go Up Faster Than If We Did Nothing

Which is pretty inconvenient for the liberals whose mantra on health care is that we must do something to solve this health care crisis that is totally unsustainable.

One of President Obama’s primary justifications for pushing health care legislation has been that the status quo is “unsustainable” because of the skyrocketing cost of medical care in the United States. The way to rein in costs, he argues, is to do adopt the policies that he and his fellow Democrats are proposing. But a new report by the government actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a branch of the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, has found that the exact opposite is true.
CMS took a close look at the health care bill that was passed by House Democrats and endorsed by the White House, and it found that not only would the bill not reduce health care costs — it would increase them. Time and again, we have been reminded that the United States spends a higher percentage of its GDP on health care than any other nation — about 16 percent. As Obama but it in his June speech to the American Medical Association, “If we fail to act, one out of every five dollars we earn will be spent on health care within a decade.” Yet if we adopt the legislation supported by Obama — which finances expanded coverage through tax increases and Medicare cuts — health care spending will actually rise to 21.1 percent of GDP, according to CMS, compared to 20.8 percent if we simply do nothing.

What is perhaps scarier, though, than a government health care bill making health care costs worse is the grim specter of the government trying to control health care costs. Because, really, there’s only one way the government can control health care costs when they’re in charge and that’s by restricting our access to it.
That’s right. Rationing. The government telling you when, where and how much health care you can get.
Which means our two options under government-controlled health care are either a) paying more than we’d have paid if the government had just stayed out of it or b) getting less for our money.
Hope for change.