Posted on 11/12/2008 6:00:02 PM PST by lowbridge
he New York Times reports that Democratic senator Max Baucus will unveil his nationalized health care proposal today, and (surprise!) it would require all Americans to purchase health insurance:
The plan proposed by Mr. Baucus, Democrat of Montana, would eventually require everyone to have health insurance coverage, with federal subsidies for those who could not otherwise afford it.
Other Democrats with deep experience in health care are also drafting proposals to expand coverage and slow the growth of health costs. These lawmakers include Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Representatives John D. Dingell of Michigan and Pete Stark of California.
The proposals are all broadly compatible with Mr. Obama’s campaign promises. But Mr. Baucus’s 35,000-word plan would go further than Mr. Obama’s in one respect, eventually requiring all people — not just children — to have coverage. [...]
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A little thing like logic will never discourage Liberals.
I would think it would have the opposite affect.
i see no need for a revolution - the economic system will collapse on its own accord. Just be ready to pick up the pieces.
Not one of the morons listed have deep experience in health care. They are career thieves that like to play social engineer. They don't know jack $hit about the intricacies of providing health care!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32cxf_yuri-bezmenov
Barney Frank wants to take over the Big 3 also, until he was told the Big 3 were automakers.
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Uh, then you pay, via subsidy.
BINGO!
Let me tell you the story of New Jersey and MANDATORY auto insurance years ago. They had a state run insurance program for those who could not (for one reason or another) get car insurance...many of the insurers fled NJ because of the regulations.
So many people were on the state plan AND the state had no incentive to seek and wipe out fraud, that the system went bankrupt! It was a massive boondoggle! Eventually, incentives were given to bring insurers into NJ....it’s still mandatory, but the state is basically out of the insurance business. (as far as I know)
When government gets into the medical insurance game, costs will go up, fraud will go up, and services will tank.
The automobile insurance company is either government owned or tightly controlled. You report your car stolen and they'll cut you a check for the current "Blue Book" or equivalent list "value".
They don't send an insurance adjuster (valuable state employee) out to check on these things.
Just before all the nonsense a couple of years ago when the Moslems were burning so many cars, the price of new cars came down several percent. Many people sought "trade in" value by driving down to the slums to get their cars burned.
Note, France has a normal backgrund burn rate of about 100 cars per week. During the "riots" that jumped to 200 cars per week.
Unless you understood their government controlled auto insurance program you'd think the Moslems were making some sort of political statement (rather than just picking up a little money from The Man)
“I don’t think I’ll let him make me do anything today.”
A little play on words from the movie “Tombstone” perhaps. Great movie.
I wonder why these people don’t understand that health insurance is not the same as health care.
A nice little corporate welfare package for insurance companies and HMOs - guaranteed income via yet another fascist Public-Private-Partnership. Socialism comes in more than one flavor (but none can quite mask the shitty aftertaste and violent explosive diarrhea).
require all Americans to purchase health insurance ... with federal subsidies for those who could not otherwise afford it.
Worked so well recently in Hawaii.
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Kennedy!? Oh yeah! The guy who flies in the 10 top surgeons in world to care for him! Yeah, what a sweetie to stick us with 3rd world health care.
1) The news media throughout the state has systematically eviscerated any competition. [One potential Pubby candidate foolishly announced his campaign last year and got three-months’ worth of almost daily front page “stories” (aka hit pieces) covering him, each and every member of his family and any acquaintance they could find and slander.]
2) Montana has an open primary system. [Dims here did an Inverse Operation Chaos and got a semipro political goofball (A perpetual candidate for every office on the ballot under every party label imaginable EXCEPT Pubby....until this year, surprise, surprise) anointed as the official Republican candidate for US Senate.]
3) Good ol’ Max went out and gathered over TEN MILLION DOLLARS in campaign funds. Most of it from out of state. The same “news” media that trashed all his competition didn’t even mention that amidst all the Hymns and Anthems they chanted right up to election day.
4) In case there was any petty little problems with voters who didn’t favor his reelection, our Big Time Dim Governor slipped up last summer in a speech to some contributors and described all the vote fraud schemes he had on tap. [That’s okay...the media gave him a pass after his buddy the State AG declared it was just a joke and a few of the contributors chimed in with the same story.]
Any more questions?
Sounds like SOP for rats everywhere. I just didn’t think it was that severe in Montana.
I take it the Montana GOP has done nothing to close their primaries? Does the Montana GOP have any strategist?
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