It would not work unless the whole world adopted it.
This was the excuse they needed for war and the enslavement of millions.
Now Obamacare has the same requirement. Who would have thunk it?
Posted on 08/03/2013 1:43:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
TWO beliefs continue to shape debate on Obamacare. First, pre-existing medical conditions shouldn’t prevent people from obtaining affordable health insurance. And second, people who don’t want health insurance shouldn’t be forced by the government to purchase it.
These may seem to be reasonable positions. But they are incompatible. That’s been shown by historical events, and it’s now being strikingly confirmed by recent experience in the emerging Obamacare insurance exchanges.
The crux of the matter is what economists call the adverse-selection problem. Uninsured people with pre-existing conditions often face tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket medical costs annually. If insurers charged everyone the same rate, buying coverage would be far more attractive financially for people with chronic illnesses than for healthy people. And as healthy policyholders began dropping out of the insured pool, it would become increasingly composed of sick people, forcing insurers to raise their rates.
But higher rates make insurance even less attractive for healthy people, causing even more of them to drop out. Before long, coverage would become too expensive for almost everyone.
The adverse-selection problem explains why almost no countries leave health care provision to unregulated private insurance markets. It also predicts that requiring private insurance companies to charge the same rates to everyone will make it prohibitively expensive for most people to buy individual health insurance.
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Not quite. He said he would fundamentally change America. I think he has. He said he would get us out of Iraq. He didn’t mention he would do it on a technicality but he did end the war there.
Even if everyone is in it, it will still fail. Just take a bit longer.
I got called for Jury duty a few years ago, and just about every single case they called me for was for malpractice and I would get into arguments with the lawyers “This is why our health insurance is through the roof because of bottom feeders like you” lol (I really said that) One guys face turned beet red, I thought he was going to clock me “They deserve to be compensated! They deserve to be compensated!” That’s their favorite word “compensated” They never ever say “paid”. These freakin’ John Edwards type slimebags are making more than the doctors! What’s wrong with this picture? Don’t get me wrong, not all doctors are saints and if the doc is really a F-up he should pay, but come on...EVERY case in court is malpractice? WHAT?
LOL! I read right through it and didn’t notice.
Massages might be something that they will look into :)
Just the other day the State of Ohio officially announced that health premiums under OsamaObamaCare will rise by 41%.I wonder how Comrade Bob sees that announcement fitting onto the "catastrophically" scale.Not that *he* has to worry about that thanks to the fact that he's surely been exempted from that train wreck as a member of the rich,powerful and "connected".
Agreed. Unfortunately, for nobama's plan to work, it must be.
The giant glaring error is a basic economic principle; pouring money into anything makes it more expensive. If the government subsidized hamburgers, the price would skyrocket. It’s that basic. Pouring government money into healthcare to make it more affordable was the wrong thing to do. Health care costs would plummet if certain things were done. Mainly stop the mandates.
For Obamacare to Work, Everyone Must Be Insane
Exactly. Why do you think Obama is implementing ‘Nudge Teams” to change the thinking of most Americans?
If they cannot fine, threaten and intimidate you into thinking their way - they will torture and kill you to obtain compliance with their demonic system.
We are past the point of resisting this tyranny by any civil means, and our enemy intends that to be the case.
I brief and fleeting moment of clarity from the NYT and Robert H Frank.
Frank is just another high minded prog who is a vested member of the ethereal country club of We-Know-Better. He is another example that defies the notion that a conservative is a liberal who has been just mugged. Communism failed, but let's try it again, but this time the Frank idiot will pontificate new idiocy.
So congress critters will get insurance from the exchanges but have to pay out of pocket only 25% of the premium? While everyone else will pay the full 100% out of pocket with maybe a tax credit next year. Maybe that 75% is taxable income? It sure would be for a private citizen.
I was on a mock jury organized by a manufacturer of a drug, who was being sued by the family of a man who caught the disease (AIDS), and died while taking this drug, which has been quite effective (and profitable) keeping the patients alive. The jury (or 2 or 3, simultaneously, as I recall) was conducted by a marketing firm that did this kind of studies, and included a cross section of citizens from the county where the trial would take place, i.e. those that were expected to be called for jury duty. Microphones in the ceiling, cameras and people on the other side of a two may mirror, actors or attorneys playing both sides of the dispute, and we the jurors. The manufacturer was of course concerned as the medication was a cash cow worldwide, while AIDS patients were still dying, as AIDS patients tend to do.
The victim, (a Mexican immigrant) who was presumably hetero, and whose practices that led to the infection were not discussed, was quite obviously a patient in denial, uneducated, who would not take the drug as prescribed,
did not follow doctor’s orders, etc. Left a grieving widow and children. Nevertheless the family sued, and many on my jury sympathized (grieving widow and children, whose pictures the jury was shown by the actors playing the plaintiff’s attorneys.) After all it was the dreaded greedy Big Pharma. What happened at the actual trial I don’t know, I’d have to check sometime.
It's socialism when you can opt out, Communism when it's mandatory.
Well stated Bill.
I'm 61 years old, no spouse, no dependents, no pets, no houseplants, minimal assets.
They can come and get me. 3 hots and a cot would be an improvement in my lifestyle.
The remaining 20 percent are cases that aren't necessarily worth pursuing in court, but have been trumped up and altered so as to get them into court. So basically, it's about 60 percent or so fraud/unnecessary, and 40 percent legitimacy.
Which is why everyone should be out.
I will have to go on Obamacare because of having to take disability from a genetic disease that will eventually take my life. It scares the *%#| out of me to turn my DNA and 30 years of medical records over to the government. Do I see a death panel in my future? Absolutely.
Now Obamacare has the same requirement. Who would have thunk it?
Obamacare and all other progressive, social-engineering schemes would not be possible without the existance of the Federal Reserve.
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