Saturday, December 28, 2013

Please summarize this article about Pres. Obama and health care. http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/26/we-are-out-of-money

This article is an opinion piece in a very conservative
magazine's website.  It is from May of last year.  In it, the author is severely
criticizing Pres. Obama for his plan to create a new national health insurance
program.


The author starts with Obama's statement that the
country is "out of money."  To Obama, this is evidence that health care reform is
needed.  He thinks that health care costs are a major problem for the US and that his
program is needed to reduce these costs.


By contrast, the
author thinks that America's debt is exactly why the health care program is a bad idea. 
He believes that the program is something that only an advocate of big government can
like and he thinks it is something that America cannot
afford.


Here are two important quotes showing these
ideas:


First, the author says
that



nobody
who wasn't already committed to his vision of government managed, mandated, rationed
health care



could like
Obama's plan.  This is because


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Obama is requesting over $600 billion in his
budget for what the White House bills as simply a "down payment" on his grander scheme
of universal coverage. Not to beat a dead horse, but that's over $600 billion that the
U.S. government doesn't have on hand to
spend.


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