From Hugh Hewitt of the Washington Examiner …
Here are five questions every sponsor of any version of Obamacare ought to be obliged to answer — in detail:
1. Can you specify, at least to the level of tens of millions, exactly where will the $300 billion in cuts to Medicare proposed by president come from?
2. The president and his allies agree that the cost of Medicare Advantage programs will have to increase for seniors. By how much will Medicare Advantage premiums increase?
3. The president and his allies agree that some Medicare services will have to be cut. Which Medicare services will have to be cut?
4. Forty-five percent of doctors responding to a recent Investors Business Daily/TIPP poll responded that if Obamacare passed, they would consider quitting or retiring. Even if the number of disgruntled doctors is overstated — by a factor of 2 or or 5 — wouldn’t the number of doctors who do retire early or quit out of disgust make the delivery of health care much more difficult than it already is?
5. If the U.S. health system is so bad, how do you explain why the five-year survival rate of women with breast cancer in the United States is higher than that of women in Great Britain and the five-year survival rate for American men with any form of cancer is much higher than the same survival rate among all European men.
Hmmm.
Washington Examiner, “Obamacare is to Medicare what ACORN is to Children’s Protective Services”, September 21, 2009
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Obamacare-is-to-Medicare-what-ACORN-is-to-Children_s-Protective-Services-8268673-59983347.html
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