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PETER SUDERMAN: Buy Now, Pay Later: ?Listen to liberal advocates of health-care reform and you?ll ?

By Glenn Reynolds

PETER SUDERMAN: Buy Now, Pay Later: “Listen to liberal advocates of health-care reform and you’ll hear two constant refrains: We must expand coverage to everyone, and we must control costs. Democrats tend to sell this as a package deal, a sort of political version of the Billie Mays pitch?but that’s not all! And while they’ve put forth a number of plans that would expand coverage by varying degrees, the tacked-on bonus?as is the case with most info-mercials?is essentially a scam: Claims that the Democrats’ current proposals will rein in health-care spending are sketchy at best. . . . The fact is, health-care costs are rising across the developed world, even in the most widely praised systems.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 27, 2009 (boomark / email).