Jindal: Obama's Dishonesty about Health-Care Reform
by Shirley S. Wang (excerpt)

WALL STREET JOURNAL

President Obama is repeating Clinton-era mistakes of the ’90s in trying to overhaul the health-care system, taking a “fundamentally dishonest approach to reform,” says Bobby Jindal, Louisiana’s Republican governor, in an op-ed in today’s WSJ.

Jindal faults the Clinton plan because it was “concocted in secret without the guiding hand of public consensus-building, and because it was a philosophical over-reach.”

In the Obama-led effort, he targets the “hollow” promise that Americans can keep their current health-care plans. He says this isn’t true because the Democrats’ goal is to get more people to join the public health plan that has been proposed in various bills, which would allow the government plan to set prices.

Another “myth” he sees is that government involvement won’t lower the quality of care. “For all of us who have seen the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to hurricanes, this contention is laughable on its face,” Jindal scoffs.