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Deceptive Obama Health-Care Plan Worsens the Status Quo, Explodes Costs, Say Washington Post Columnists
The Washington Post endorsed Obama — indeed, it hasn’t endorsed a Republican for president since 1952 — but a lot of Washington Post columnists are not enthusiastic about his health-care plan, which is costly, obsolete, deceptive, and harmful.

Obama’s plan would just aggravate the status quo and increase skyrocketing health-care costs, says veteran editorialist Robert J. Samuelson: “One of the bewildering ironies of the health-care debate is that President Obama claims to be attacking the status quo when he’s actually embracing it. . .While denouncing skyrocketing health spending, he would increase it.”

Earlier, Samuelson noted that various aspects of Obama’s health-care plan were “naive, hypocritical” and “simply dishonest.”

Elderly people would be subjected to worrisome undue influence regarding end-of-life decisions, says Charles Lane, a liberal editorialist.

Obama’s plan ignores basic, obvious reforms of the health-care system needed to stem skyrocketing costs and provide health-care security, says Charles Krauthammer — such as a more efficient, less litigious way to decide medical malpractice cases, which wealthy, liberal trial lawyers oppose....

...In the New York Times, economist Tyler Cowan calls Obama’s plan “voodoo economics.”...