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MICKEY KAUS: HOW IS HEALTH CARE REFORM LIKE THE BP OIL SPILL? Peter Orszag?s Office of Managemen?

By Glenn Reynolds

MICKEY KAUS: HOW IS HEALTH CARE REFORM LIKE THE BP OIL SPILL?

Peter Orszag’s Office of Management and Budget has been charged by a presidential commission with engineering an obviously political downplaying of the early BP oil spill estimates. . . . At least that’s not the same Orszag-run OMB that assured us Obama’s health care plan would either be “deficit neutral” or actually reduce the deficit by “bending the curve” of health care costs. . . . Oh wait. . . . P.S.: Substitute “health care cost increases” for “spill” in the BP stories to catch a possible glimpse of the future! . . . .

Falsus in unum. . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 10, 2010 (boomark / email).