There is no clearer example of the contempt with which the overlords regard the cattle-masses in post-America. While the Most Equal Comrade was peddling his blatant falsehoods about keeping your plan and keeping your doctor and premiums not going up, the architect of the damn thing was talking about "the stupidity of the American voter" and letting loose with this bit of candor:
"If you had a law that made it explicit that healthy people are going to pay in and sick people are going to get subsidies, it would not have passed."This is what they think of you.
This isn't failure. Not by the overlords' standards. The collapse of economic freedom is happening right on schedule.
Now Hillie can blame the big bad insurance companies in her quest to implement a universal plan that has been 100 years in the dreaming. Judging from what stands now as a single payer system, i.e., the VA, this will also be a colossal failure too. Yet, the elements of gambling in the free market game are counter-productive to true insurance in which all risks are pooled to compensate those who have losses. Theories. Conservatives are full of them too.
ReplyDeleteIf you think what we had before was free market, well, it wasn't. The perfect world the insurance companies want is all the premium with no nasty little things like losses, i.e., claims. Short of that, they'll try to hedge their bets by choosing only optimum risks. Who gets the rejects? Gummit, i.e., we do. So the corps. get the profits, the taxpayer basically bears the brunt of the risks the corps will not take on unless they have to. It's called corporate welfare aka crony capitalism. And I guess you like it, huh?
ReplyDeleteAnd if an insurance company goes belly-up, of course after all the commissions and profits have gone to the hot shots who you can't get to, guess who pays the claims? We all do. Go figure?
ReplyDeleteOf course, what we had before was;t a free market. You've been reading this blog long enough to know that is a basic premise here.
ReplyDeleteRe: a company going belly up: All the more reason to go to an actual free market. We should want those companies to be viable and profitable.
You may as we'll be speaking of some heaven neither of us has seen and only rarely heard anything concrete about. But throw that out as your plan. Who is your major standard carrier or carriers?
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