Unless you want to believe that for the first time in history, a new government program will not cost more than Congress is predicting, then the chances are whatever numbers Obama and the Democrats come up with to try and convince us that their plan will actually save money are lies.And if you believe it anyway, you probably believe in the tooth fairy too.From a Wall Street Journal opinion piece:Thanks in part to expansions promoted by California's Henry Waxman, a principal author of the current House bill, Medicaid now costs 37 times more than it did when it was launched-after adjusting for inflation. Its current cost is $251 billion, up 24.7% or $50 billion in fiscal 2009 alone, and that's before the health-care bill covers millions of new beneficiaries.Medicare has a similar record. In 1965, Congressional budgeters said that it would cost $12 billion in 1990. Its actual cost that year was $90 billion. Whoops. The hospitalization program alone was supposed to cost $9 billion but...(Read Full Post)