Posts Tagged ‘budget reform’

June 3, 2010

Heritage Research

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The Debt Commission, Health Care, and Obama’s Budgetary Game Plan

When the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform held its first official meeting in April, all of the talk was of getting serious about putting the nation’s fiscal house in order and that everything would be “on the table” for consideration.   But if everything is on the table, Obamacare must be included, too.  To read more, click here.

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March 1, 2010

Health Care News

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Video: Paul Ryan Destroys Obamacare’s Deficit Reduction Claims

Yesterday at the Blair House health summit, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) directly challenged the White House’s deficit reduction claims. From the transcript:

“Look, we agree on the problem here, and the problem is health inflation is driving us off of a fiscal cliff. Mr. President, you said health care reform is budget reform. You’re right. We agree with that. Medicare right now has a $38 trillion unfunded liability. That’s $38 trillion in empty promises to my parents’ generation, our generation, our kids’ generation. Medicaid is growing at 21 percent this year. It’s suffocating state’s budgets. It’s adding trillions in obligations that we have no means to pay for it.”

“Now, you’re right to frame the debate on cost and health inflation. And in September when you spoke to us in the well of the House, you basically said — and I totally agree with this — ‘I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits either now or in the future.’” (more…)

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