Posted on 10/18/2013 9:52:52 PM PDT by Mike Darancette
And so the slide toward single payer begins. Who is surprised it starts in DC?
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So health insurance could only be purchased at a certain time of year in D.C.?
Not a surprise.
I still think this was all planned, the failure and everything
The left loves a woman’s right to choose to abort her baby and a homosexual’s right to bugger other guys. Yet, they cannot permit people to make their own health insurance decisions. If the left’s programs are so good, I have to ask. Why aren’t people free to opt out of them????
Communist bastards are going all in.
FU Justice Roberts.
Yep.
Hope you are feeling better.
Feeling great! Thanks!
I am hoping all those ‘pro-life’ Dems that voted for Obamacare (Bart Stupak- ‘I trust Obama when he says taxpayers will not be paying for abortions’) will have trouble sleeping at night, thinking about all those dead babies. Heartwrenching.
Is this conscious step toward single-payer socialized medicine a product of local politics or racial politics?
Is that legal?
“Is this conscious step toward single-payer socialized medicine a product of local politics or racial politics?”
Why does it have to be one or the other? That’s a false choice argument.
The answer is neither - it is made up of special interests groups of all races and all localities.
I would include the following groups.
1. Those with leftist ideology whose self interest is central control, and single payer would take them a long ways there.
2. The intellectually lazy so called “low information voters” (ignoramusus) who are easy targets of the government propaganda machine (msm). Their self interest is implanted in their brains by the media convincing them that medical care is a right and that central control is the best solution.
3. The “guilt ridden” whites and well to do, who feel that their success was a stroke of luck, and that less fortunate must be taken care of regardless of their circumstances. Their self interest is relief of guilt, so they can enjoy guiltless affluence.
4. The poor - those who for whatever reason haven’t made it in this system and are thus eager for a handout. The self interest is rather obvious in this case.
5. The irresponsibles - those that are able and even earn a decent living yet blow it all on frivolities instead of taking care of the more important things first - like their health care. Their self interest is to let somebody else worry about the “important things” so they can enjoy life. They don’t worry about long term implications.
6. And then of course you have the moneyed interests, like insurance companies, unions, etc. who have colluded with the ruling class in return for a piece of the action.
I may have left out one or two...
Plato’s republic is here.
It is my understanding that the open enrollment period is for all individual plans whether one acquires insurance through an exchange or directly from the insurance company. The states get to decide how insurance is sold. In some states you can buy directly from the insurance company and they will process the subsidy for you if you are eligible. Of course, that is if they ever get it to work..
It frustrates me to no end when liberals replace a competitive free market with a monopoly, thinking [sic] that the monopoly will provide better service for less money. I have a co-worker who supports everything Obama does solely because Obama has a ‘D’ after his name. When I ask him to give me a single case where a monopoly provides more service for less money than a competitive free market, he comes up empty every time. Yet he still supports the monopoly over the free market because it’s the Democrats who did it.
Since, next year, the Obamacare open enrollment period will be the same as Social Security (10/15 - 12/7) can you imagine the cluster fudge if the private insurers are thrown in too? Seems to me that the well to do (no subsidy) healthy folks will opt for an off exchange policy. This would seem to be a conflict of interest for insurers who sell individual products on and off of the exchange. DC is attempting to avoid any competition.
As for insurance bought outside of the exchange AFAIK ACA law states that only "Silver Level" policies bought through "STATE operated" exchanges is eligible for a federal subsidy.
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