“Cahill bashes state — and national — health care reform law”, Boston Globe:

State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent candidate for governor, today offered a wide-ranging and scathing criticism of the state’s universal health care law, saying it is bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the same nationally, if a similar plan is passed in Congress.

“If President Obama and the Democrats repeat the mistake of the health insurance reform here in Massachusetts on a national level, they will threaten to wipe out the American economy within four years,” Cahill said in a press conference in his office.

Echoing criticism leveled by congressional Republicans in recent weeks, Cahill said, “It is time for the president, the Democratic leadership, to go back to the drawing board and come up with a new plan that does not threaten to bankrupt this country.”

Cahill, who bolted the Democratic Party in July, has been a long-time critic of the state’s health insurance law. He said he was calling today’s press conference to respond to Governor Deval Patrick’s accusation last week that he and other gubernatorial candidates have been “missing in action” in tackling health care concerns.

Cahill said it is the governor who has not done enough to lower costs imposed by the state’s health insurance law, which Cahill said “has nearly bankrupted the state.”

Cahill said the law is being sustained only with the help of federal aid, which he suggested that the Obama administration is funneling to Massachusetts to help the president make the case for a similar plan in Congress.

“The real problem is the sucking sound of money that has been going in to pay for this health care reform,” Cahill said. “And I would argue that we’re being propped up so that the federal government and the Obama administration can drive it through” Congress.

Wait, is Mr Cahill suggesting that the federal government would use its power to create the optics necessary to perpetrate an economically disastrous scam on the American people, all so they can expand the size and scope of government and governmental power?

The hell you say!

Because I’ve just recently heard from Dick Durbin, and he assures me that the rich, Big Oil, Big Banks, and Big Republicans are the real problems in this country. And he seems such a trustworthy sort.

No. I think I’ll just thank Mr Cahill for his opinion and then dismiss it as the carping of a right wing pessimist; after all, this is America: if we can’t provide free health care to everyone while actually cutting spending in the process, well, then I guess I just don’t know how my country works anymore!

(h/t LMC)