The House votes to repeal FHer-care in its entirety.
Of course, the Senate as currently composed would never follow suit, but the House could go the next step and, since per the Constitution, it's the chamber that appropriates the money, it could pull the plug as a means to put teeth into its stand.
Well they stand for repealing Obamacare, not sure about freedom, but if you say so. I can name a few wars where it was claimed that freedom was what we were fighting for but I am still trying to figure out whose freedom. There were once, not that long ago, compelling arguments for health care reform that a substantial majority appeared to support, according to multiple polls. How many "plans" do these freedom lovers have to put the replace into the repeal or is that in itself freedom hating?
ReplyDeleteMethinks the Senate should seriously, I mean seriously, debate the latest CBO figures that, if true (although I certainly wonder what's up with that projected deficit that suddenly was greatly lessened), could be a game changer. But, who pays for the uninsured? I have heard we all do anyhow, one way or the other. Your answer seems to have been that that is no concern of government. OK, but who pays?
ReplyDelete"The uninsured" is not some static class of people. It includes those who just plain aren't interested in buying insurance, those who lost it due to job change, those who, in retrospect, wished they'd planned better and bought a catastrophic-care policy earlier in life. And each category is fluid, with people moving in and out. The solution is not to be found on the macro level, but rather in freeing people up to have the widest possible set of choices about how to care for their own health.
ReplyDeleteAnd if the deficit turned into a mountanous surplus this afternoon, it would not justify government involvement in health care.
OK, then stop bringing up financing then. I will continue to trust our government over the free market and especially over the numerous cads that comprise the free market in this country who I do not trust one bit more. The difference? I have a say in canning our current public trustees.
ReplyDeleteYou also have - or did have - the right to decide whether you wanted insurance or not, what company you were going to buy it from, and what kind of policy you'd buy. Before FHer-care, no one held a gun to anyone's head and said, "You have to buy insurance, and it has to be exactly this kind."
ReplyDeleteRe: financing: Sorry, but government health programs always run into insolvency.
You seem to have swallowed the leftist narrative that the free market naturally becomes a lawless jungle where predators prevail.
ReplyDeleteRe: trusting the government: I offer for your consideration a post from the other day which is basically a link to a Charles C W Cooke piece about how a healthy mistrust of government is quintessentially American.
ReplyDeletehttp://barney-quick.blogspot.com/2013/05/if-not-kept-limited-with-constant.html