“The architect of Obamacare, Sen. Harry Reid (D.-ev.), tired of being hammered by challenger Sharron Angle on Nevada’s worst in the nation unemployment, has gone on the attack defending Obamacare.”
Oh...that’s going to work out well. /s
“Sharron Angle continues to point out that Obamacare will force everyone to pay for coverage they may not need because the federal government will dictate through the political process what coverage is required in every policy. You may not want a transgender operation, but you’re covered for it and will pay for it anyway.”
This is the redistribution of wealth/health care that they were able to sell to a the dumb cultists/small minority of the country. It stinks...
“The Reid/Sebelius retort was to present 5 year-old Brennan, an autism patient, whose father (an admitted Reid supporter) claimed he could not get insurance coverage for the expensive autism treatment.”
Of course they will determine if a mere child gets the help they need according to the costs involved, and that child’s “benefit” to society. This is exactly what Sarah Palin addressed in her reference to Trig’s needs having to go to the bureaucracy for help.
Death panels are in the legislation...
The autistic boy's family is basically screwed if the boy did have a pre-existing condition and they didn't have insurance before they discovered he needed the treatment. It's unfortunate, but that is a common feature of insurance policies. The same is true of flood insurance, fire insurance, etc.
The essential, existential lie in the Reid/Sebelius political pitch is that somehow this would change if politicians were put in charge of the insurance function.
That's what the adumbrated Obama "death panel" provision and current triage functions in Britain's National Health are all about.
Just because healthcare or health insurance are nationalized by Socialists, won't change the unhappy future of people like the autistic boy Reid is holding up as an example of what he wants to do. He'll just have a somewhat different unhappy future, in which his family will fruitlessly beg bureaucrats instead of insurors for what society won't give them.
But politicians will enjoy enormous power over people with sick children -- or any children. This is what politicized health insurance is all about. Reid is the very first in line to try to cash that chip.
I hope Sharron Angle stomps Reid flatter than a tortilla.