”If Obama candidly said he is trying to put America on the path to government-run health care, it would excite exactly the sort of massive national grassroots opposition needed to kill his plan. So what Obama is doing is paving a one-way street to a socialized medicine while expressly denying he is doing so — and while accusing those who point out what he is doing of being untruthful.” — columnist Terence Jeffrey
 

“It’s hard to know whether President Obama’s health care ‘reform’ is naive, hypocritical or simply dishonest. Probably all three. The president keeps saying it’s imperative to control runaway health spending. He’s right. The trouble is that what’s being promoted as health care ‘reform’ almost certainly won’t suppress spending and, quite probably, will do the opposite.” — columnist Robert Samuelson
 
“A government bureaucracy controlling your medical care is likely to combine the efficiency of the post office with the compassion of the IRS. Imagine a trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles — but to secure lifesaving treatment for yourself, a spouse or child, rather than simply to obtain a driver’s license. What a nightmare.” — columnist Carol Platt Liebau
 
“Only a Washington economist can argue with a straight face that providing quality health care to 46 million Americans who are now uninsured and assert it will save ‘between $75 billion and $125 billion per year.’ Folks, that’s how government and deficits keep getting bigger.” — columnist Debra Saunders
 

“The problem in the next four years will be not just that the president of the United States serially does not tell the truth. Instead, the real crisis in our brave new relativist world will be that those who demonstrate that he is untruthful will themselves be accused of lying.” — columnist Victor Davis Hanson