Posted on 02/08/2011 6:19:56 AM PST by mattstat
In an interview with Bill O'Reilly, President O'bama said
What I hear you saying is that the notion that us saying to people that don't have health insurance, don't make me pay for your health insurance, if you get sick, you have a responsibility to make sure you have coverage. There's nothing socialist about that. That's saying to Americans, we're going each of us be responsible for our own health care.
The sentiments behind these words are not consonant. If each citizen is responsible for his own health care, then each citizen should pay should he become ill or not pay if he remains healthy. He may also choose to contact a bookie and bet he will become ill, taking whatever odds he and the bookie negotiate. If he remains healthy, he looses the bet; but if he sickens, he wins and the bookie pays. If he chooses not to place a bet yet he subsequently sickens, then the resulting health care bill is his burden, not mine, not yours, and not Mr Obama's. This system is simple and can be called the personal responsibility scenario.
The other scenario is Obama care, or health care socialism. Here, some citizens are forced to pay, regardless of desire or need, into a bureaucracy tasked to dole a fraction of these taxes back out for government-approved "health care" procedures. Many citizens pay nothing. All citizens receive the same level of minimum care. Richer citizens can, by paying still more, operate additionally under the personal responsibility scenario---unless, as often happens, the government decides this is not "fair" and bans departures from its mandated system. Both citizens and health-care providers become subservient to an unelected, self-satisfied bureaucracy.
It is clear to anyone with a rudimentary mathematical ability that proper "insurance" can only be found in the personal responsibility scenario. To call the mandatory payments under Obama care "insurance" is a deliberate obfuscation; it is newspeak: any enforced payment is a tax and nothing else. This is true even if you don't want it to be.
Can Obama’s last two years pass by fast enough? I hate wishing time away, but this suffering needs to end.
Very well put.
Why won’t one of our guys in the bigs say this?
The Lord only knows.
The obama voters,worshipers, and disciples and muslim "martyrs" are both going to come to the same conclusion. The obama voters,worshipers, and disciples when they wake up in abject misery after being promised The Garden of Eden on Earth. The muslim "martyrs" when they wake up in hell with hairy old men after being promised dancing girls in paradise.
This is an argument that is very lame! It didn’t seem to bother the left when illegals drain the system.
If you get in an accident and you have to go to the hospital, and you don’t have insurance...the tax payers pick up the bill...so we are mandating that you purchase health insurance.
Well if that is the case...then every illegal should be made to pay the hospital bill.
In his mind bureaucracy there’s nothing socialist about it.
BRILLIANT!
That should be the argument made by senators and congressmen on the floor of the houses. It is perfect because it cuts the liberals with their own sword.
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