Health Care Reform Needs Democrats To Be Smarter Than A Fifth Grader

If a dog owner reduced a dog's daily ration one ounce every time the dog pooped or peeped outdoors but when the dog pooped or peeped indoors, he added a treat to the daily ration, there would be a lot of "waste" in the house. This is exactly what government health care programs have been encouraging for decades.

President Obama's own economic advisers reported in June 2009 (page 14) that government health care programs do not pay for quality care or value, but do pay for poor quality. Today, Democrats are blaming all the "waste" in government on everyone but government's perverse incentives for causing the 30-40 percent "waste" in health care. A fifth grader would know that paying health care providers for excellence and never preventable failure would take the "waste" out of health care. Instead, the Democratic Party and the President are about to take "waste" to a higher level by giving the federal government more tax and control power that will accelerate the perverse incentives and implement stealth taxes that will mask the real cost of a government controlled health care delivery system. If you think the status quo is wasteful and chaotic today, wait until five years of ObamaCare on government steroids has past.