Posted on 10/13/2020 7:23:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Democrats can't character-assault Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett the way they did Brett Kavanaugh, so they're screaming bloody murder that Barrett will kill millions of Americans in the event she rules against Obamacare.
According to Rich Lowry, writing in the New York Post:
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin says that this is her "assignment." Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island says that she is a "judicial torpedo" aimed at the Affordable Care Act.
President Trump admitted a vote for Judge Barrett is a vote to take away health care and pre-existing condition protections for millions of Americans. https://t.co/kdKIkbEwy8— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) September 27, 2020
She's coming to take something away from you.
This is total garbage. It comes as a study rolls out showing that Obamacare itself is killing off millions.
Matt Margolis at PJMedia found this ugly little detail about this government health care takeover that Democrats confuse with actual health care:
According to a Gallup survey from December 2019, 33 percent of Americans say they or a family member put off treatment for a health condition because of the costs.
This number has remained virtually unchanged since Obamacare was passed. In fact, the number has averaged about 30 percent since 2006, which is significantly higher than it was back in 2001, when only 19 percent of Americans said they or a family member put off treatment for a health condition because of the cost.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The whole point of Obamacare was to drive the cost of care so high, so that you would cover your own care out of pocket anyway.
Democrats don't realize that Obamacare has done nothing to reduce the number of Americans who delay seeking medicare care because of costs. The numbers were lower prior to Obamacare being passed. #ConfirmACB pic.twitter.com/2wjmcKzY39— Matt Margolis 🇺🇸 (@mattmargolis) October 12, 2020
I remember when “healthcare” was always good, whether I had a good job or a mediocre one.
Then the Clintons came along and started the “healthcare CRISIS” mantra.
From that point on is when government started meddling with it and prices started going up and coverage started going down.
Any problem with our healthcare system is entirely the fault of our lovely elected politicians. Scumbags all.
The day the mandate became the law of the land was the first day in my life I no longer had health insurance. I’ve not had it since. My wife and I, both almost 67, have trusted in the Great Healer and he has been amazingly faithful. And we’ve had only about $2,500 in medical expenses since that time due to a single visit to an ER for a false alarm. And that was way below typical deductibles today anyway.
And we’ve saved six figures in insurance premiums in that time. Literally, the value of our house and acreage.
That was the result of Obamacare, but the purpose was to make it so expensive most Americans would support socialized medicine as the solution. The engineers admitted it, and everything predicted by the naysayers has come to fruition. The designers didn’t ignore the warning bells; they expected and ignored them.
The real problem with ObamaCare (that most people now realize) is that it didn’t provide “health care” - it provided “health insurance” that many can’t afford to use.
Ha-THAT’S not health care... that’s what REMAINS of health care for some people.
Someone in government needs to simply allow and incentivize a completely cash / free-market system to develop. No 3rd party payers. Patient and doctor work out a treatment plan and payment between themselves.
Our present corrupt, hairball, 3rd party-payer system is impossible to reform or dismantle, so let it be for now.
Simply let something else arise beside it. Americans are going to need options and choices as our existing system gets worse and more expensive.
Zero-care was designed to break the system. To force a benevolent government to step in and provide. Hitlery was supposed to win and provide the knockout punch but Trump got in the way.
I have had several people tell me they don’t bother with screening appointments because treatment of any kind would bankrupt their families.
They are now running commercials in my area (northeastern NJ) trying to coax people back to hospitals for treatments; they are maintaining the fiction that fear of the virus is keeping them away rather than admit that the shutdown has simply drained their pockets.
I gave up heth insurance when it started costing me $18,000 before they paid one penny
Why bother?
Sean hannity had some doctors on his show that were doing just that
Family of four in MO making about $20k per year. The “Marketplace” tells us we don’t make enough money to participate and gives us a link to MO Medicare. Mo Medicare tells us we make to much to get coverage.
No soup for us.
Meanwhile, pre-Obama, I bought United Healthcare plan through a broker when my wife was pregnant because my employer didn’t offer anything. $400/mth and we had two kids on it. Hardly cost us anything. Less than $1k out of pocket for the two births and doctor visits were always $20 copay.
I gave up heth insurance when it started costing me $18,000 before they paid one penny
Why bother?
I’ve save over$100k into my retirement.
Let's hear it for socialized medicine!
Seniors especially can't say they weren't warned.
And harvest trillions for “thepoor” and insurance companies for bribes and kickbacks also known as “campaign contributions”.
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