AND THEY WONDER WHY PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED?:

U.S. Raises Estimate for 10-Year Deficit to $9 Trillion (EDMUND L. ANDREWS, 8/25/09, NY Times)

“A lot of people will look at this deficit and say we cannot afford health care reform,” said Peter R. Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget. But Mr. Orszag said the opposite was true: the only way to control spiraling Medicare costs, he said, was to get control of overall health care costs...

So it is about rationing?

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 25, 2009 9:26 AM