MICKEY KAUS: HOW IS HEALTH CARE REFORM LIKE THE BP OIL SPILL?

Peter Orszag’s Office of Management and Budget has been charged by a presidential commission with engineering an obviously political downplaying of the early BP oil spill estimates. . . . At least that’s not the same Orszag-run OMB that assured us Obama’s health care plan would either be “deficit neutral” or actually reduce the deficit by “bending the curve” of health care costs. . . . Oh wait. . . . P.S.: Substitute “health care cost increases” for “spill” in the BP stories to catch a possible glimpse of the future! . . . .

Falsus in unum. . .