No, it's not to bring quality, affordable health care to all Americans. It's to bring all Americans to their knees, desperately begging the all-powerful state for enough of life's essentials to see another day.
As I've said before, I'm no economist, and it's the one subject I wish I'd taken more classes in as a student. (The college I attended had a great econ department.) I do study it informally now, and think about it a lot, and, as I've said here and elsewhere before, I've come up with a basic First Rule of Economics: The money has to come from somewhere.
Our overlords such as the Most Equal Comrade, Kathleen Sebelius et al, while not geniuses, are not ignorant of this law. They damn well knew there was not enough money to run this stopgap program for people with preexisting conditions. But they were fiercely determined that there would be no consideration of market-based solutions.
A nation of neutered cattle, that's the desired result.
What does a person with, say, diabetes, do when they lose their job and thereby their insurance? The only real cure for all of this mess is to wax universal, we all pay for those unfortunates who have unexpected losses. Look to the rest of the world here. Perhaps they knew that the watered down version, this train wreck, would push us in that direction, if they are smart. Let me ask you this: who does pay for those with preexisting conditions?
ReplyDeleteIn his recent presser which was the last straw for me with this guy Obama reassured us about what even members of his own party is a train wreck. Will he later claim that was an off the cuff remark like his red line with Syria?
ReplyDeleteEr make that say is a train wreck.
ReplyDeleteObamacare is a market based solutions. The insurance carriers love it. Self-employed folk like you and I are going to take a serious hit here with carriers claiming premiums for us will rise 25 to as much as 100%. Of course we can "opt out" for a 1% of our gross income penalty the first year. Then all I have to do is hang on for a year to medicare eligibility. Am I going to take medicare? You betcha. Am I going to fight any cuts which are surely to be continually attempted as we come to grasp with the economics of so many in that demographic, the likes of which it has never seen before? Ditto. Am I going to continue to support universal care, like our veterans get? Double ditto!!
ReplyDeleteSorry, I'll be actively working for exactly the opposite solution: free-market health care. And, no, FHer-care is not free market, per this penalty for opting out. That's government setting parameters on your choices as a free individual - and taking your hard-earned money to boot.
ReplyDeleteUh, where do people with preexisting conditions go for their coverage, I mean affordable coverage, not some corporate "penalty" for their goddam given condition, or are they neutered cattle prime for slaughter? If it is to be true insurance, as I have so fecklessly continued to attempt to remind you here, all must be in the risk pool, young and old, employed and unemployed, the sick and the formerly sick and the some day to be sick, in order for it to be true insurance, rather than some way for somebodies to profit off selectively choosing risks to insure with all that luscious money in the pot, after considerable withdrawals for their "trouble." Say, why do veterans get this universal coverage here? I know, such a worthy calling we owe it to them. Did you know sociopaths make the best fighters? Who needs them when we got drones anyhow?
ReplyDeleteYou're correct that we owe it to the veterans.
ReplyDeleteAs for people with pre-existing conditions, it is not within the Constitutional purview of the federal government to concern itself with people's personal life decisions, such as when to buy insurance.
It is simple, we pay under medicaid. We may owe it to the veterans, but it works for them and it can work for all of us.
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