Posted on 08/19/2009 3:06:27 PM PDT by Syncro
LIBERAL LIES ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE: FIRST IN A SERIES
August 19, 2009
(1) National health care will punish the insurance companies.
You want to punish insurance companies? Make them compete.
As Adam Smith observed, whenever two businessmen meet, "the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." That's why we need a third, fourth and 45th competing insurance company that will undercut them by offering better service at a lower price.
Tiny little France and Germany have more competition among health insurers than the U.S. does right now. Amazingly, both of these socialist countries have less state regulation of health insurance than we do, and you can buy health insurance across regional lines -- unlike in the U.S., where a federal law allows states to ban interstate commerce in health insurance.
U.S. health insurance companies are often imperious, unresponsive consumer hellholes because they're a partial monopoly, protected from competition by government regulation. In some states, one big insurer will control 80 percent of the market. (Guess which party these big insurance companies favor? Big companies love big government.)
Liberals think they can improve the problem of a partial monopoly by turning it into a total monopoly. That's what single-payer health care is: "Single payer" means "single provider."
It's the famous liberal two-step: First screw something up, then claim that it's screwed up because there's not enough government oversight (it's the free market run wild!), and then step in and really screw it up in the name of "reform."
You could fix 90 percent of the problems with health insurance by ending the federal law allowing states to ban health insurance sales across state lines. But when John McCain called for ending the ban during the 2008 presidential campaign, he was attacked by Joe Biden -- another illustration of the ironclad Ann Coulter rule that the worst Republicans are still better than allegedly "conservative" Democrats.
(2) National health care will "increase competition and keep insurance companies honest" -- as President Barack Obama has said.
Government-provided health care isn't a competitor; it's a monopoly product paid for by the taxpayer. Consumers may be able to "choose" whether they take the service -- at least at first -- but every single one of us will be forced to buy it, under penalty of prison for tax evasion. It's like a new cable plan with a "yes" box, but no "no" box.
Obama himself compared national health care to the post office -- immediately conjuring images of a highly efficient and consumer-friendly work force -- which, like so many consumer-friendly shops, is closed by 2 p.m. on Saturdays, all Sundays and every conceivable holiday.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
Weigh huge!
LOL you bet, thanks for the BUMP!
All your health care are belong to us!
Yet like a DUer, you call FR members name and put down Coulter and anyone who appreciates her.
We won't go to your birther threads and call you a DUer, so return the favor OK?
Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.
Very true. You can now buy "car repair insurance" for cars under a mere 200,000 miles on them. In reality, it's gambling.
A German conservative looks like moderate-left Democrat, here.
YOU are the disruptor here, mouth.
It’s run by Chancellor Angela Merkel of the conservative “Christian Democratic Union”!
Of course she's a socialist. The tipoff is the "Democratic" and "Union" in the so-called "conservative" german party. It's like when they call Kathleen Parker a "conservative."
That's one of the main things we concentrate on here at Free Republic.
The Constitution restricts government drastically, and congress and the leftists (Obama, Reid, Pelosi, etc) do NOT follow the constitution.
And judges do the same, from the Supremes on down to the ones that can be bought at a much lower price.
Let's take our country back!
Part once seems to be gone. Anybody know where it is?
So each week the last week's column “disappears”
You can always find them from clicking on “archive” on the left side of the site.
Here is the Link To Part “Once” from her archives
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