Matt Cover,CNS News
Obama will control healthcare at any cost
Even President Obama’s budget chief doesn’t know how much it will eventually cost to enact the president’s vision of health-care reform.
The proposed $3.5 trillion budget for the 2010 fiscal year,which would raise the federal deficit to $1.75 trillion,contains $634 billion for health-care reform to come from tax increases and “savings” in the medical system – money to expand health coverage for Americans currently without health insurance.
But Peter Orszag,the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB),was unable – when asked by CNSNews.com – to come up with the total cost for Obama’s plan to reform the nation’s healthcare system.