Under this plan, insurance companies can't turn you down for pre-existing conditions, so you just carry around an application for insurance and then when you feel chest pain, you just sign it and drop it in the mail with a premium check on your way to the hospital.
Health care reform is not "insurance" it is welfare. I personally would probably choose to go without insurance, as I can probably afford a couple of days in the hospital and if I don't have insurance I can save about $12,000 a year. I could just put that $12,000 a year into a savings account and after about 3 years I would have enough money to pay for most major surgeries in the bank and if I had some kind of accident, or I came down with cancer, I would just purchase "insurance" at that time and keep it until I either got home from the hospital or my cancer went into remission.
Why on earth would anyone purchase insurance if you can get it any time you want without consideration of pre-existing conditions and if the insurance company couldn't charge you more just because you had cancer or diabetes or needed heart surgery on the day you signed up?
The point of all this is exactly as you say, P-M. It is to provide another welfare program. With that they have another constituency, and they consolidate an old constituency. They must call it “insurance” though, for they hope to rope in lower middle income independents and some quasi-conservatives. These folks would still be insulted if you claimed they were on welfare.
The other constituency targeted is the illegal community. Amnesty is the key, and Obama’s majority in both houses makes an illegal amnesty bill inevitable. And someone tell me how this wouldn’t encourage another 20 million to cross the border. A minimum wage job, welfare, to include health care, is just across the border.
Not so subtle, not so devious, but enough to have plausible deniability.
And then the socialist program will march forward unimpeded.
The most important election in the history of the republic will be 2010. The most important races will be in the Senate, and especially in any conservative primaries. Rinos and liberal, supposedly on our side, must be removed in the primaries.
BTW, since Obama is courting the Muslim world, the best defense against gays in the military should include huge broadcasts of his gay friendliness to the Muslim world.