I'm trying to do better at keeping up with the blogging thing...and news like today's really helps.

I just read that Obama is proposing mandatory health care insurance for all Americans.  Although the details are a little skimpy it looks like it has something to harm just about everyone.  All employers would be forced to contribute...thus raising their costs.  All employees will be forced to have insurance....thus reducing take home pay, and the incentive to work for some.  All insurance companies will be forced to insure without regard to pre-existing conditions, thus raising their costs, which they will pass on to consumers.  Just as a kicker...he'd repeal the "tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans" thereby reducing the amount of tax money coming in (liberals just don't get that part) and increasing the cost to the government.

I did a little quick number crunching, giving Obama every benefit of the doubt I could...and this is what I come up with.  My health insurance with my company is about $5500 a year.  Now, according to Obama, I would save $2500 a year with his program...but that money has to come from somewhere....so I'll just discount that claim.  Let's just look at the 45 million uninsured folks Obama claims this will cover.  And let's assume that they are in families averaging 3 persons.  That leaves 15 million new insurance policies at a total cost of $82.5 BILLION dollars annually. 

As I said...I'm giving him all sorts of benefit of the doubt...not increasing the costs due to insuring folks with pre-existing conditions, assuming that cost won't be higher for the type of plan that congress has versus my little plan, and still this just seems outrageous.

Anyone want to take bets on when/if the MSM calls him on it?