More Pournelle on Health Care
9th October 2009
Today’s Wall Street Journal headlines that “New Math Boosts Health Plan.” Some new calculations claim that the Health Care Plan (whatever it is, since it’s hardly final) will reduce the deficit. Given that all the health care plans make some form of health care a free good for many new millions of people, the notion that it will save money is ludicrous, and it’s hard to understand how anyone would believe that for a moment. It’s going to cost money — every such plan always has. It’s going to cost a lot more than we project. Every such plan always has. This is the Bullwinkle the Moose principle: “This time for sure!”
And that about says it all.