TO YOUR HEALTH, NOT - AT 8:50 A.M. ET:  Even The New York Times could not resist a dig at the grossly irresponsible manner in which our health care is being assaulted by the liberals in Congress:

WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Friday answered President Obama’s call for a sweeping overhaul of the health care system, unveiling a bill that they said would cover 95 percent of Americans. But they said they did not know how much it would cost and had not decided how to pay for it.

Why confuse us with details?  Press reporting on this critical issue has been abysmal, with the press asking few pertinent questions.  Originally, the White House said that Americans could keep their current health coverage if they liked it, but that guarantee is now in jeopardy.

Asked why there was no cost estimate for the bill, the House Democratic leader, Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, said: “Until we have a final product, we are reluctant to ask the Congressional Budget Office for a score. But whatever we do will be fully paid for.”

House Democrats pledged to offset the cost of their legislation by reducing the growth of Medicare and imposing new, unspecified taxes.

Republicans, who had no role in developing the bill, denounced it as a blueprint for a vast increase in federal power and spending.

“Families and small businesses who are already footing the bill for Washington’s reckless spending binge will not support it,” said the House Republican leader, John A. Boehner of Ohio, who raised the specter of federal bureaucrats’ making medical decisions for millions of people.

COMMENT:  We cannot overstate the recklessness here.  Apparently, the radical liberals want to throw out the baby with the bath water, destroying much that is good about American health care in favor of theories and speculative programs - all dictated by Washington. 

Most political pundits are predicting that some kind of "reform" will pass.  We'll be watching this with two eyes, to the extent that the press is willing to cover the details.

June 20, 2009