Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin (a graduate of the Washington Semester program at American University, represent!) addressed the cost of the Senate health care bill, in one of the few worthwhile exchanges at the health care summit.
Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin (a graduate of the Washington Semester program at American University, represent!) addressed the cost of the Senate health care bill, in one of the few worthwhile exchanges at the health care summit.
I'm from Wisconsin. Paul Ryan talks the talk, but in 2008 he voted for the Bush stimulus plan and bailout package. Until I hear an apology, I don't think he deserves the praise of a group of young people who understand liberty. Partisanship is deceptive when it's your party that's out of power.
Agreed
Nonetheless, his points (regardless of what mouth they come out of) are valid--hiding spending doesn't reduce spending. And even a cursory glance at the government-run healthcare systems throughout the "civilized" world show an overriding callousness with regard to humane care and a tragic unifocality on costs--cost-cutting, cost overruns, cost-benefit triage, etc. Healthcare bills have not passed in America simply because we're a large enough country that we KNOW we can't pay for this, even with all the trickery in the world. Thankfully, Ryan reminds us of this fact, lest with forgetfulness we believe the bipartisan deceit.
I agree I don't like this guy. He's quoting FA Hayek's the Road to Serfdom now and the guy got his degree in economics I don't want to hear any "oh I thought we were going to experience a deflationary downward spiral if I didn't vote for TARP." What he told John Stossel back in January. He should have known better and as Rand Paul says, it should be a career ending vote for anyone with an (R) next to their name.
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