Posted on 03/03/2010 9:53:58 AM PST by Slyscribe
Mickey Kaus has caught whatever malady causes TNR editor Jonathan Cohn to believe that Democrats will be in a stronger position in November if they pass health care reform. Cohn premised his argument on the claim that reform would produce “tangible benefits scheduled to take effect mere months after the bill becomes law.” Those benefits included the shrinking of the Medicare Part D “donut hole”, families being able to keep their kids on their policies
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What a moron. Most of the healthcare bill doesn’t even kick in for 3-4 years, so even if there are benefits which I seriously doubt Americans won’t see them until long after November. But they will see the higher taxes right away.
Does everybody want their leach kids to be on their medical coverage until they are 29? Do they ever want them to move out, get a job, get married, have children of their own?
And in other news: Mickey Mouse is suffering from Crohn’s Disease.
And who pays for the shrinking of the doughnut hole? The taxpayer. Already the taxayer is paying for 75% of Medicare Parts B and D costs.
While Kaus is stronger than most Republicans on immigration and unions, he is really clueless on healtcare.
He has bascially stated that he thinks government run healtcare will cost a lot more, but he doesn’t care as long as it provides universal coveraage. I think he is badly mistaken when he says that government healtcare would provide more care, because rationing (death panels) would be too politically unpopular. But, at least he comes out and says what he believes, unlike most Democrats.
The comparative effectiveness research legislation is already in place c/o the 2009 stimulus legislation. The 0bama administration is already spreading seed money to the states to monitor health care information and outcomes. The state monitoring programs will be managed and overseen by an enlarged and more powerful HHS bureaucracy. This is how the rationing will begin. First a nudge, then a shove.
Whenever a patient gets denied a drug or procedure from now on, who do you think that the patient and doctor will blame? Unless they are progressives, they will blame big government. When a patient with Medicare or Medicaid can’t even find a doctor to treat them, most will also blame government policies.
The Dims want socialized health care. But they will really own it because they fought so hard to get it. I think this will be an even greater plague for the left than the blame Bush phenomenon has been for Republicans.
RomneyCare in Massachusetts is instructive. It’s driven up insurance and healthcare costs far above the national average and it’s also created a huge deficit there. When Americans see the same thing happening nationally with a lot of people still not being covered because of the cost, they will be outraged. Of course maybe the Obama/Dem game plan is to use that to say “See! We need stronger medicine! Private insurance is just always going to be too expensive. We need single payer!”
Anyone who believes this is not in tune with reality at all.
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