Why Obama’s ‘Health-Care Reform’ Will Ruin Health Care in America

big journalism ^ | 3/19/10 | Rich Trzupek

[Nachum]

Nobody has to read the 2,310 pages of the health care bill to know why it will ruin health care in America. You don’t have to go any further than page 49, which marks the end of Subtitle E, “Governance,” to understand what’s coming. Subtitle E creates the office of the “Health Choices Commissioner,” the person charged with putting into effect all of the wonderful regulatory mechanisms that H.R. 4872 demands. But, in the regulatory sense, the Commissioner is not a person. The Commissioner is rather an institution, one that will have powers and responsibilities unprecedented in American history.

[Raycpa]

A not so modest proposal. Lets assume HC passes. What if everyone immediately dropped their private coverage and used every possible health care service available.

Sort of a reverse Cloward-Piven Strategy

[Secret Agent Man]

Can’t, the plan doesn’t actually begin for four more years. Only the tax collection for healthcare starts immediately.

[kittykat77]

What if everyone immediately dropped their private coverage and used every possible health care service available.

I'd say definitely think this through carefully first. Not having private insurance does not mean you can automatically get public health care, since those programs are means-tested.

For Medicaid, you'd pretty much have to blow through your assets first. Do you really want to do that?

Also, if a significant number of people stop paying for private medical insurance, those companies would collapse and the government would be forced to intervene. The result: single-payer healthcare.