Posted on 08/05/2009 3:08:13 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The goal of the Democrats' plan for health-care reform is coming more and more out into the open: they want to eliminate health insurance.
This has turned out to be the most passionate source of public opposition to the Obama health-care bill. People are terrified that they will be deprived of any choice or any control over their own health care if their only option is to depend on the government to pay their medical bills.
Astoundingly, the Democrats' answer to this has been, not to reassure people that they will be allowed to keep their existing coverage—since this lie has proven too transparent to maintain—but instead to vilify the health-insurance companies. This is the line of attack the Democrats have chosen as they go into the August recess: private health-insurance companies are evil, and big government is here to save us from them.
According to the New York Times, President Obama is planning an "August offensive against the insurance industry." It is "a campaign of increasingly harsh rhetoric against the insurance industry" that is "intended to drive home the message that revamping the health care system will protect consumers by ending unpopular insurance industry practices, like refusing patients with pre-existing conditions."
That part about pre-existing conditions gives the game away. Health insurance companies refuse to cover pre-existing conditions for the same reason that you can't insure your automobile after you crash it. Insurance is a form of financing for the unexpected and unpredictable. It is not a mechanism to force somebody else to pick up the tab for expenses you have already incurred.
Do the Democrats even understand what insurance is? Over at Mother Jones, Kevin Drum muses that "Health insurance is a weird industry. They don't do research, they don't perform surgeries, they don't change bedpans ..."
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
...what debate?
It isn’t just the health care debate that is a mandate on “Individualism” or “Collectivism”.
It is the entire government and their agenda.
Yes. A good piece today from Charles Hugh Smith on the seemingly insurmountable difficulties of accomplishing needed reform:
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug09/obstacles08-09.html
Obama: Mao I ask you about your 5-year plan to collectivize healthcare and other heavy industry?
excellent article...why would anyone want their treatments or quality of life determined by a Healthcare Commissioner or the will of the Gov’t?...
The liberal stupidity freeloading mindset is so stupid!
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